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After this
these men brought action against me to establish their claims, and I sued them
for the marriage-portion. At the first we had Solon, of Erchia,1 registered as
arbitrator, and submitted to him for decision the claims we advanced against
each other. These men, however, did not appear, but avoided the hearing; and
thus considerable time was wasted, and it came about that Solon died. These men
then instituted their suit against me afresh, and I my suit against the
defendant, summoning him under the name of Boeotus, and inscribing that name on
the complaint; for that was the name my father gave him.
1 Erchia was a deme of the tribe Aeantis.
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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