Demosthenes, Against Leochares, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 35

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[35] But the truth is, I presume his one simple idea was that he must by fair means or foul lay claim to the property of others. And first he had the audacity to go and enroll himself on the assembly list¹ of the Otrynians, although he was an Eleusinian, and managed to put this through; then, before his name was entered on the adult register² of the Otrynians, he sought to claim a share in the public benefits in flagrant defiance of law, because of his greed for gain.

Against Leochares. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Aristodemus Against Leochares Regarding the Estate of Archiades (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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[35] ἀλλὰ γὰρ οἶμαι ἁπλοῦν τι διελογίσατο, δεῖν αὑτὸν καὶ δικαίως καὶ ἀδίκως ἀμφισβητεῖν τῶν ἀλλοτρίων. καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ἐλθὼν οἷος ἦν εἰς τὸν Ὀτρυνέων πίνακα τὸν ἐκκλησιαστικὸν ἐγγράφειν αὑτὸν Ἐλευσίνιος ὤν, καὶ τοῦτο διῳκεῖτο, ἔπειτα, πρὶν ἐγγραφῆναι καὶ ἐν τῷ ληξιαρχικῷ γραμματείῳ τῷ τῶν Ὀτρυνέων, μετέχειν τῶν κοινῶν, τηλικαύτην παρανομίαν προαιρούμενος παρανομεῖν ἕνεκα πλεονεξίας.

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Against Leochares

1. This was a list of all those who had the right to vote in the popular assembly ( ἐκκλησία).

2. This was the official list of the members of the deme, in which every young man who passed the scrutiny was registered when he reached the age of eighteen. Each deme had its own assembly, presided over by the demarch, or borough-president.

Demosthenes Against Leochares 35

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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