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Son of Skydimos;[1] a sycophant. This man's father was a public debtor and died in prison. And Aristogeiton himself, as the inheritor of the debt, was subsequently seized. His mother was sold [as a slave] by the state. In prison he stole a register and was found out by the jailers, and he bit off the nose of the man whose register he had stolen. And[2] after he had run away and Zobia had given him shelter, asking for a good turn when he was strong [again], he hauled her off to the auction-house of the metic-tax; and his own sister he did sell for export. He indicted Hyperides for making an illegal proposal in his decree after Chaironeia and he did not convict [him].[3]

*)aristogei/twn, *skudi/mou, sukofa/nths. tou/tou o( path\r o)flh/sas tw=| dhmosi/w| teleuta=| e)n tw=| desmwthri/w|. kai\ au)to\s *)aristogei/twn meta\ tau=ta w(s klhrono/mos tou= o)flh/matos e)de/qh. h( de\ mh/thr e)pra/qh u(po\ tou= dh/mou. e)n de\ tw=| desmwthri/w| kle/yas grammatei=on kategnw/sqh u(po\ tw=n desmwtw=n, kai\ th\n r(i=na, ou(= to\ grammatei=on e)/kleyen, e)/fage. kai\ *zwbi/an u(podecame/nhn au)to\n fugo/nta, a)ciou=san eu)= paqei=n, o(/te i)/sxuen, e)pi\ to\ tou= metoiki/ou pwlhth/rion h)/gage, kai\ th\n a)delfh\n e)p' e)cagwgh=| pe/praken. *(uperi/dhn de\ e)gra/yato parano/mwn e)pi\ tw=| meta\ *xairw/neian yhfi/smati kai\ ou)x ei(=len.

[1] Actually Kydimachos; see already alpha 3912.
[2] For this sentence cf. Demosthenes 25.55-57 (web address 1 below). The material reappears under epsilon 1514 and mu 820; cf. also zeta 115.
[3] In 338/7. For details see M.H. Hansen, The Sovereignty of the Peoples Court in Athens in the Fourth Century BC and the Public Action against Unconstitutional Proposals (Odense 1974) 36-7, #27.

David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords) on 1 August 2001@09:51:18.
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