Eleusinians
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demesman among the Eleusinians · family of his fathers · the Eleusinians · the townspeople of Eleusis
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Against Leochares
Deme or family affiliation to which the opponents are said to belong or return.
And first he had the audacity to go and enroll himself on the assembly list of the Otrynians, although he was an Eleusinian, and managed to put this through;
Leocrates, who had become son by adoption to Archiades, himself returned to the Eleusinians, to whom he originally belonged, leaving Leostratus here in the family as a lawfully born son.
Nay more, he even deceived the archon, when he made his deposit for costs to thwart us, and in his counter-statement declared that he was an Otrynian, when he was in fact a demesman among the Eleusinians.
Hellenica
The inhabitants of Eleusis, lured into registering under a false pretext by the Thirty, then seized and voted condemned to death.
Therefore you must vote condemnation of the Eleusinians who have been seized, that you may have the same hopes and fears as we.
There they held a review of the townspeople under guard of the cavalry, pretending that they wanted to know how numerous they were and how large an additional garrison they would require, and then ordered them all to register;