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 218 ON THE REPRESENTATION OF judges were appointed by lot, and were generally^, but, as we have seen, not always 2, five in number. The archon administered an oath to them ; and, in the case of the cyclian chorus, partiality or injustice was punishable by fine^. The successful poet was crowned with ivy (with which his choragus and performers were also adorned*), and his name was proclaimed before the audience. The choragus who had exhibited the best musical or theatrical enter- tainment generally received a tripod as a reward or price. This he was at the expense of consecrating, and in some cases built the monument on which it was placed^. Thus the beautiful choragic monument of Lysicrates, which is still standing at Athens, was undoubtedly surmounted by a tripod; and the statue of Bacchus, in a sitting posture, which was on the top of the choragic monu- ment of Thrasyllus, probably supported the tripod on its knees. Such, at least, seems to have been the intention of the holes drilled Fig. 1 See Mauasac, Diss. Crlt. p. 204; Hermann, de quinque judicibus poetarum, Opusc. VII. p. 88. 2 Above, p. 114. ^ ^schin. /card Kt7]<tl<P. § 85. 4 See the passages quoted by Blomfield {Mus. Crit. ii. p. 88), and the lines of Simmias, in p. 113, supra. 5 Lysias ubi supra, p. 202. Comp. Wordsworth's Athens and Attica, pp. 153, 4.