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[31] and writes at the head of it as witnesses the names of people whom I think you will know well when you hear them— “Diotimus, son of Diotimus, of Icaria,1 Archebiades, son of Demoteles, of Halae,2 Chaeretimus, son of Chaerimenes, of Pithus,3 depose that they were returning from a dinner with Conon, and came upon Ariston and the son of Conon fighting in the agora, and that Conon did not strike Ariston,”

1 Icaria, a deme of the tribe Aegeïs.

2 There were two demes of this name, one on the east coast of Attica and the other on the Saronic Gulf. The former belonged to the tribe Aegeis, the latter to the tribe Cecropis.

3 Pithus, a deme of the tribe Cecropis.

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