or Dokimasia, in Antiquity, a probatory trial to which every Athenian citizen was subjected when he was appointed, either by lot or suffrage, to any public office. The dokimasia consisted in a scrutiny into the character and qualifications of the individual, and was performed in public before certain judges: when, among other interrogations, it was asked whether he had been dutiful to his parents, had served in war, and if he were in possession of a competent estate.