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Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

Against Boeotus II. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1936.

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Current edition Perseus

Mantitheus Against Boeotus II (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

Editions (1)
πρὸς Βοιωτὸν περὶ προικὸς μητρῴας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 34 focus

Notes on the current edition

Against Boeotus II

1. By claiming that his name was Mantitheus, not Boeotus, he made of no effect the judgement rendered against him under the latter name.
2. Every Athenian elected to public office had to pass a scrutiny ( δοκιμασία) and prove his full citizenship.