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Judiciary and Lawcourts The lawcourts of Athens, a city notorious throughout Greece for the litigiousness of her citizens, were both numerous and large. Several of these lawcourts were in the immediate ... klepsydra, or water clock (29) ... (klepsydra), fifth century B.C ... the klepsydra emptied (30)