[There are] nine of them:[1] six thesmothetes,[2] archon [eponymous], king, polemarch.[3] And before the laws of Solon they were not allowed to sit in judgment together; instead, the king sat by what was called the Herdsman's House [Boukoleion], which was near to the Prytaneion; the polemarch [sat] in the Lyceum;[4] the archon at the [statues of the] Eponymoi, and the thesmothetes at the Thesmothesion. They were empowered to pronounce judgment on cases on their own authority. But after Solon they had no other function besides interrogating the litigants.