the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
the buried etymology: mārga’s Indo-European trace *mreg- is “cognate with Latin margo ’edge, boundary,’ and so English ’margin’” — the trodden way is kin to the margin of a page
held by margame, one of 204 citizens — A natural language understood as a trained-disciplined path of stages and practice, walked by countless people over generations and received as a gift before any current walker adds to it.
margame (Sanskrit mārga + Sumerian me)