Halimus
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our deme · the deme
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Birds
The Athenian deme Euelpides was heading toward when he was robbed after mistaking a cock's crow for daybreak.
I thought it was dawn and set out for Halimus.
Against Eubulides
The Attic deme to which the speaker and his family belonged and whose citizen register is the subject of the dispute, identified as Halimus through its members, 'the Halimusians.'
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;
Now, men of the jury, if the Halimusians had been deciding on that day the status of all the members of the deme, it would have been reasonable for them to continue voting until late, in order that they might have fulfilled the requirements of your decree before departing to their homes.
In Defence of Euxenippus
An Athenian deme in which Agasicles was allegedly (improperly) registered, the basis of an impeachment cited as an example of trivial contemporary charges.
Diognides and Antidorus the metic are impeached on a charge of hiring out flute-girls at a higher price than that fixed by law, Agasicles of Piraeus because he was registered in Halimus, and Euxenippus because of the dreams which he claims to have had;