 Also notable is that the Laws’ emphasis on all citizens as eligible, and so presumptively capable, to hold offices, differs significantly from the Republic, where it is not clear whether there are to be in Kallipolis any formally constituted offices at all, and if there are, they would seem to be monopolized by the philosopher-rulers and the auxiliary guardians who assist  them.[9]  The outlook in the Laws may have somewhat more affinity with the closing passages of the Statesman, which refer to the offices or quasi-offices of rhetor, general and judge which at least certain citizens will hold, those with the relevant expertise to play each role. The Statesman however reserves a special extraordinary role (a higher office, or perhaps not a formal office as such) for the statesman whenever he is present in the city (Lane 2013b). The role of the Statesman’s eponymous figure must therefore be distinguished from that of the “Nocturnal Council” in the Laws (which is actually to meet just before dawn), a body of citizens who are selected for wisdom and judiciousness and whose role is to review and revise the laws rather than (as in the Statesman, at least theoretically) to override them when it is better to do so.