Demesmen
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Against Eubulides (Greek)
In the first place, after the demesmen had assembled, he wasted the whole day in making speeches and in drawing up resolutions.
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Against Boeotus II
Deme members whose list records civic identity.
But after this, instead of the name, Boeotus, which my father had given him, as has been proved to you by witnesses, after my father’s death he had his name inscribed on the list of the demesmen as Mantitheus, and being further addressed by the name of the same father and the same deme as I myself, he not only forced a retrial of the case in which I am now suing him, but when you had elected me ta …
Against Eubulides
The male citizen members of the speaker's deme, who assembled to vote on the citizenship status of their fellow demesmen during the scrutiny.
In the first place, after the demesmen had assembled, he wasted the whole day in making speeches and in drawing up resolutions.
For since our deme is distant thirty-five stades from the city and most of the demesmen live there, the majority of them had gone home;
He produced no witnesses in support of his charges, either a member of the deme or one of the citizens at large, but urged the demesmen to pass a vote of expulsion.
On the Estate of Menecles
The members of Menecles' and the speaker's deme, who witness the adoption, the marriage, and the speaker's later conduct as Menecles' son.
and of these things I produced before you the evidence of the wardsmen, the demesmen, and the members of the confraternity.
but when he was sound in body and mind, and fully aware of what he was doing, he adopted me and introduced me to his fellow-wardsmen in the presence of my opponents and enrolled me among the demesmen and the members of his confraternity.
Menecles exercised the forethought on my behalf which a father would naturally exercise for his son, and I tended him and respected him as though he were my true father, as also did my wife, so that he praised us to all his fellow-demesmen.