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πρεσβεῖα By right of primogeniture (39 § 29). Pollux: πρεσβεῖά ἐστι γέρα τὰ τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις δεδομένα. The recognition of any such right seems quite exceptional in Attic law. See Hermann-Thalheim, Rechtsalt. p. 62, note 2, and Beauchet, Droit Privé, III 453 f. τὴν συνοικίαν “It should be observed that the Attic language distinguishes between dwellinghouses (οἰκίαι) and lodginghouses (συνοικίαι); accidentally indeed a dwelling-house might be let out for lodgings, and a lodging-house have been inhabited by the proprietor himself” (Boeckh, Publ. Econ. I 90). Apoll. may have already had a household of his own and his father may therefore have assigned him a συνοικία (A. Schaefer, Dem. u. s. Zeit, III 2, 133). Cf. § 6 ἐπὶ συνοικίαις, n.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part II. J. E. Sandys, Litt. D., and F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D. 1910. Cambridge University Press.
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