Fellow-demesmen and Fellow-tribesmen
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fellow-tribesmen · fellow-demesmen
in the texts
On The Estate of Apollodorus
The speaker's fellow tribesmen, who are said to acknowledge his liberal conduct as gymnasiarch.
for I have acted as gymnasiarch at the festival of Prometheus in the present year with a liberality which all my fellow-tribesmen acknowledge.
Characters
The coward's fellow members of his deme and tribe, used first as a source of protection and later as an audience for his boasting.
" And he brings in his fellow-tribesmen, and his fellow-demesmen, to look at the wounded man, and to each of them he relates how he himself carried him to the tent with his own hands.
On campaign, when the infantry are going out to the rescue, he calls his fellow-demesmen to him, bidding them stand by him and first look around, and says it is hard work to tell which are the enemy.