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My father's death happened before the entries were made on
the register of the demesmen,1 but the defendant
went and enrolled himself on the register as Mantitheus, instead of Boeotus. How
great a wrong he did in this—to me, in the first place, but also to
you—I shall show, as soon as I have brought forward witnesses to prove
my assertions.“
Witnesses
”
1 Enrollment on the register of the deme marked the beginning of a young man's political life. It took place when he reached the age of eighteen.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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