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Nay more, he even
deceived the archon, when he made his deposit for costs to thwart us, and in his
counter-statement declared that he was an Otrynian, when he was in fact a
demesman among the Eleusinians. When, however, he failed in all these schemes,
at the last election of officers the fellow got together some of the demesmen,
and demanded that he be registered as the adopted son of Archiades.
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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