People of Oreus
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Oreus · people of Oreus · the people of Oreus
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
Euboean city whose contribution and decree are used as evidence of Demosthenes' bribery.
Decree
As proof of what I say, the clerk shall read the decree to you.
To prove that what I am telling you is true, please take the decree of the people of Oreus.
Against Aristocrates
Civic community used as a comparison for refusing fuller status to Charidemus.
that whereas the people of Oreus, who inhabit only a fourth part of Euboea, dealing with this very Charidemus, whose mother belongs to their city,—I will not mention who his father is or where he comes from, for it is not worth while to make unnecessary inquiries about the man,—so that he himself contributed one-half of the birth-qualification, have never to this day thought fit to make up the oth …