EURĪPUS

[ A mph i the at rum . ] EUTHȲNĒ ( εὐθύνη ). All public officers at Athens were accountable for their conduct and the manner in which they acquitted themselves of their official duties. The judges in the popular court seem to have been the only authorities who were not responsible, for they were themselves the representatives of the people, and would therefore, in theory, have been responsible to themselves. This account, which officers had to give after the time of their office was over, was called εὐθύνη , and the officers subject to it, ὑπεύθυνοι , and after they had gone through the euthyne , they became ἀνεύθυνοι . Every public officer had to render his account within thirty days after the expiration of his office, and at the time when he submitted to the euthyne any citizen had the right to come forward and impeach him. The officers before whom the accounts were given were at Athens ten in number, called εὔθυνοι or λογισταί , in other places ἐξετασταί or συνήγοροι .