But to have a proper confidence in these, they should have the choosing of the members; whether the election be made by themselves, as at Athens, or by some magistrate deputed for that purpose, as on certain occasions was customary at Rome.
Baina harengan uste osoa izan dezan, berak hautatu behar ditu kideak; dela berak aukeratuz, Atenasen bezala; dela hautaketarako ezarri duen magistraturen baten bidez, Erroman zenbait abagunetan egin ohi zen bezala.