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He got together some of the Otrynians with the
demarch, and persuaded them at the opening of the adult register to inscribe his
name. And after that on the occasion of the great Panathenaea1 at the time of the distribution, he came to get his
admission fee, and when the other demesmen were receiving it, he demanded that
it be given him also, and that he should be entered on the register under the
name of Archiades. But when we entered a solemn protest, and all the others
declared that what he was doing was an outrage, he went away without either
having his name inscribed or receiving the admission fee.
1 The great Panathenea, the most important of all Athenian festivals, was held every four years in the month of Hecatombaeon （ July） .
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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