HYPO´BOLES GRAPHE
HYPO´BOLES GRAPHE (
ὑποβολῆς
γραφή). Of this action
Lexic. Seguer. p. 311
says that it was preferred against persons suspected of having been
supposititious children; and that if this fact was established at the trial,
they were reduced to slavery. Even supposing with Meier (
de Bon.
damn. p. 29) that this action was preferred only when the
children thus substituted were not of civic extraction, the punishment seems
unnaturally severe; hence Thonissen (
Droit pénal,
p. 343) doubts the correctness of the grammarian's information. Midias was
said to be a supposititious child (Dem.
c. Mid. p. 563.149);
Isaeus (
Pyrrh. § § 15, 36) hints that Phile
belonged to the same class; cf.
Aristoph.
Thes. 407,
511, and Dio
Chrys. 15.8, p. 237,
ὅτι αἱ μὲν ἐλεύθεραι
γυναῖκες ὑποβάλλονται πολλάκις δι᾽ ἀπαιδίαν, ὅταν υὴ δύνωνται
αὐταὶ κυῆσαι, etc. (Platner,
Proc. u.
Klagen, ii. p. 72;
Att. Process, ed. Lipsius, p. 441
f.)
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