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§ 45. To illustrate the man's recklessness in making charges, I will relate how he contrived to convict Evergus at the former trial. He accused him of coming to his house in the country and insulting his daughters who were heiresses, and who, had the story been true at all, would have got redress by appealing to the chief archon. τὰς αὐτὰς ἀπολογίας viz. the charge of αἴκεια and ὕβρις, § 33. ἐκεῖνον scil. Evergus. εἰσελθεῖν This is illustrated by Mid. p. 540, § 79 εἶτα τῆς ἀδελφῆς ἔτ᾽ ἔνδον οὔσης τότε καὶ παιδὸς οὔσης κόρης ἐναντίον ἐφθέγγοντο αἰσχρὰ κ.τ.λ. By the term ἐπίκληρος is meant an unmarried girl who becomes with her fortune the property of her nearest marriageable male relative. To open the door of the γυναικωνϊτις to admit a man, was to take an un wonted liberty.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part I. F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D., and J. E. Sandys, Litt. D. 1898. Cambridge University Press.
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