Tenth-Day Naming Ceremony
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kept the tenth day · tenth day after my birth · tenth-day ceremony · the celebrations on the tenth day
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Against Boeotus I
The birth ceremony at which the plaintiff says Mantias gave him the name Mantitheus.
The Deposition
Then, O Earth and the Gods, it is monstrous for him to claim that Mantias is his father, and yet to have the audacity to try to make of none effect what Mantias did in his lifetime.
He had the effrontery, moreover, to make before the arbitrator the most audacious assertions, that my father kept the tenth day after birth for him, just as for me, and gave him the name Mantitheus;
On The Estate Of Pyrrhus
The customary Athenian family ceremony held on the tenth day after a child's birth to name and formally acknowledge it, at which the uncles claim to have been present and heard the child called Cleitarete.
These same uncles have deposed that they were present by invitation of their nephew at the tenth-day ceremony in honor of the child who was declared to be his daughter.
For otherwise it would have been impossible that the uncles, who were summoned, according to their own account, to the tenth-day ceremony in honor of Pyrrhus's daughter, the defendant's niece, could ever have come into court with so accurate a recollection from that distant date, whenever it was, that her father at that ceremony named her Cleitarete, but that the nearer relatives, the father and t …