"The commissioners of the seal being three, whereof the third
is annually chosen out of the third region, are judges in
chancery.
"The commissioners of the Treasury being three, whereof the
third is annually chosen out of the third region, are judges in
the exchequer, and every magistrate of this schedule has right to
propose to the Senate.
"But the strategus with the six commissioners is the signory
of this commonwealth, having right of session and suffrage in
every council of the Senate, and power either jointly or
severally to propose in all or any of them."
I have little in this order to observe and prove but that the
strategus is the same honor both in name and thing that was
borne, among others, by Philopemen and Aratus in the Commonwealth
of the Achaeans; the like having been in use also with the
AEtolians. The orator, called otherwise the speaker, is, with
small alteration, the same that had been of former use in this
nation. These two, if you will, may be compared to the consuls in
Rome, or the suffetes in Carthage, for their magistracy is scarce
different.
The censors derive their power of removing a senator from
those of Rome, the government of the ballot from those of Venice,
and that of animadversion upon the ambitus, or canvass for
magistracy, from both.
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