[3] He himself brings forward cases in which resident aliens are concerned, on charges of acting without their protectors1 or of lacking a protector, and as to estates and heiresses; and all other actions that in the case of citizens are brought in by the Archon, in the case of resident aliens are introduced by the War-lord.
1 A metoikos (other than the isoteleis, who for taxation and military service ranked with citizens) had to be enrolled under a citizen, whose sanction was necessary for his actions if important.