Demosthenes, Against Eubulides, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 23

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[23] These persons, then, the surviving relatives of my father, on both the male and the female side, have testified that he was on both sides an Athenian and justly entitled to the rights of citizenship.

(To the clerk.)

Now call, please, the clansmen and thereafter the members of the gens.¹

The Witnesses

Now take the depositions of the demesmen and the members of the gens in regard to the clansmen, to show that they elected me president of the clan.

The Depositions

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

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Current edition Perseus

Euxitheus Against Eubulides, an Appeal (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

Editions (1)

ἔφεσις πρὸς Εὐβουλίδην Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 23 focus

[23] οἱ μὲν τοίνυν ζῶντες οὗτοι τῶν συγγενῶν τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ πρὸς ἀνδρῶν καὶ πρὸς γυναικῶν μεμαρτυρήκασιν, ὡς ἦν ἀμφοτέρωθεν Ἀθηναῖος καὶ μετῆν τῆς πόλεως αὐτῷ δικαίως. κάλει δή μοι καὶ τοὺς φράτερας, ἔπειτα τοὺς γεννήτας.

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ.

λαβὲ δὴ καὶ τὰς τῶν δημοτῶν μαρτυρίας, καὶ τὰς τῶν συγγενῶν περὶ τῶν φρατέρων, ὡς εἵλοντό με φρατρίαρχον.

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.

Notes on the current edition

Against Eubulides

1. In the early period, before the reforms of Cleisthenes ( 509 B.C.), the four tribes into which the Athenians were at that time divided contained each three phratriae, or clans, and these in turn were divided into thirty γένη. Even after Cleisthenes the phratriae and γένη retained a position of religious, if no longer political, significance. To render γένος in this sense we have no better word than the Latin gens.

Demosthenes Against Eubulides 23

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)