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Excerpt from Plutarch, Vol. 3 The ostracism, to give a summary account of it, was conducted in the following manner: every citizen took a piece of a broken pot, or a shell, on which he wrath the name of the person he wanted to have banished, and carried it to a part of the market-place that was inclosed with wooden rails. The magistrates then counted the number of the shells; and if it amounted not to six tb onsand the ostracism stood for nothing: if it did, they sorted the shells, and the person whose name was found on the greatest number was declared an exile for ten years, but with permission to enjoy his estate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.