Citations:long leet


 * 1921, Sir James George Frazer, Apollodorus: The Library (Loeb Classical Library), volume I, Introduction, § 1: “The Author and His Book”, page xxv:
 * If you were scrupulous or a stickler for form, you might apply to the fount of wisdom at Delphi, which would send you a brevet on payment, doubtless, of the usual fee. Thus when Clisthenes had created the ten Attic tribes, and the indispensable heroes were wanted to serve as figure-heads, the Athenians submitted a “long leet” of a hundred candidates to the god at Delphi, and he pricked the names of ten, who entered on their office accordingly.