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 or Gymnasium, a collection of literature, not forgetting either that probably every temple implies a temple archive, with records of votive offerings at least and often of oracles, while the votive collections themselves sometimes include literary works. It must be remembered too that the public archives also sometimes at least contained literary works as well as legal documents.

Under Solon, it was the Areopagite who was Keeper of the records or archivist, "guardian" or "keeper of the laws" and it is generally agreed that this noteworthy office had already existed under Draco. This "Nomophylax" may, in the person of the Areopagite, have been a sort of Attorney General as well, for as head of the court he seems to have been charged with seeing that public law, custom, and morality was observed, but that part of the office which was called "keeper of laws" seems clearly to be a