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There is now a fourth law （for I admit that I
have looked closely into most of the things which the defendant has
done） according to which this Theocrines owes five hundred drachmae,
since his father had not paid a fine of that amount to which he had been
sentenced for having sought to maintain that the maid-servant of Cephisodorus
was a free woman.1 No; he fixed things
with Ctesicles, the speech-writer, who was acting in the matter for his
opponents, in such a way that he should neither pay the damages nor be listed on
the acropolis as a debtor to the state.
1 In such cases, if the parties could not come to an agreement as to whether the person in question was slave or free, the matter came into court. In the present instance the father of Theocrines had evidently not been able to make good his claim that the servant in question was a free woman, and had been ordered to pay damages to his adversary and a like sum （hence the compound verb, προσῶφλεν） as a fine to the state. See Meier and Schomann, 2. pp. 658 ff.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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