you are the Oikistes,

你被选为Oikistes
you've gotten the permission from your city to go forward,

你得到了向前行进的许可
and you go to the Delphic Oracle and the Delphic Oracle says fine,

然后你去了特尔斐神示所神谕说一切顺利
by all means, go where you want to go.

这意味着你想去哪都可以
Next thing, you got to go home and you have to write up

接下来你回家写出一份
what amounts to a charter of foundation for the city,

相当于城市建设许可证一样的文件
which lays out how things are going to work in this city

上面说明城市将如何运行
--something about the governmental structure,

以及一些有关政府结构的文件
maybe even more fundamentally how the land will be allotted,

可能还有一些更基本的问题如土地如何分配
assigned, divided, and so on

如何布置分割等等
so that when you go to recruit settlers,

这样当你招募新移民的时候
everybody will know what he's getting

每个应征者都知道他能得到什么