Eleusinians
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demesman among the Eleusinians · family of his fathers · the Eleusinians · the townspeople of Eleusis
in the texts
Against Leochares
Deme or family affiliation to which the opponents are said to belong or return.
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.
Well now, Leostratus here, although he was an adopted son and had been left in the family of Archiades, himself returned, as his father had done, to the Eleusinians, leaving in his place a lawfully born son, and, in defiance of the laws, setting up the original adoption as valid through the lives of three persons.
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;