ABSTRACT
Again, if anything be stolen from thee. Write the [letters of the] name of him whom they accuse of the theft one after the other, and the name of Kronos at the top of them all, and also the name of the thing which is lost [at the bottom of them], and the name of its owner in the middle [of them]. Then reject according to their number, however many they may be, and watch the number that remaineth so that thou mayest not succeed in rejecting them all. Begin with the first letter and assign one to each man. He to whom the lot cometh, and he agreeth with it, he it is who hath taken the object. I And if the lot cometh to Kronos, and he agreeth with Fol. 213 6. it, the man is not guilty; but if the lot cometh to the thing stolen, [all] are free from blame. [This means of disc;:overy of the thief] hath been well tried, and is sure, unless, perhaps, he who employeth it maketh a mistake in his calculations.
