the fellow, angry at their insolent treatment, brings a suit against each of them.1When now the case was coming to trial, behold, another mighty stroke on the part of Hegesandrus! Here was a man who had done him no wrong, but, quite the opposite, had been wronged by him, a man on whom he had no claim, in fact, a slave belonging to the city; this man he attempted to enslave to himself, alleging that he was his owner. Now Pittalacus, reduced to desperate straits, falls in with a man—a very good man he is—one Glaucon of the deme Cholargus; he attempts to rescue Pittalacus and secure his freedom.
1 Proceedings in court in behalf of an ordinary slave would be conducted by his master in his own name; but Pittalacus was a state slave （Aeschin. 1.54）. Probably he would have to bring suit under the name of some citizen as his protector （προστάτης）.
Aeschines. Aeschines with an English translation by Charles Darwin Adams, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1919.
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