Demosthenes, Against Leochares, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 41

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[41] For when he failed to get his own name inscribed, he entered his own son Leochares as an adopted son of Archiades, in defiance of all the laws, before the scrutiny¹ of the deme had taken place. But Leochares had not yet been introduced to the clansmen of Archiades; yet when his name had been entered on the list of the deme, only then did Leostratus, by bringing influence to bear upon a certain member of the clan, get the name inscribed upon the clan register.²

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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πρὸς Λεωκάρη περὶ τοῦ Ἀρχιάδου κλήρου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 41 focus

[41] ἐπειδὴ γὰρ αὐτὸς ἀπετύγχανεν τοῦ ἐγγραφῆναι, εἰσποιεῖ Λεωχάρην τὸν αὑτοῦ υἱὸν Ἀρχιάδῃ παρὰ πάντας τοὺς νόμους, πρὶν τοῦ δήμου τὴν δοκιμασίαν γενέσθαι· οὐκ εἰσηγμένου δʼ εἰς τοὺς φράτεράς πω τοὺς Ἀρχιάδου, ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ ἐνεγράφη, τηνικαῦτα πείσας ἕνα τινὰ τῶν φρατέρων ἐνέγραψεν εἰς τὸ φρατερικὸν γραμματεῖον.

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Against Leochares

1. For this scrutiny see note 3 of Dem. 27 .

2. This should have normally have been done shortly after birth, for the enrollment in the clan marked the acceptance of the child as a member of the family, as the enrollment in the deme marked a youth’s assumption of the status of citizenship.

Demosthenes Against Leochares 41

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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