Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators

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γναφεῖον The Athenian fuller had a thriving trade, as the woollen ἱμάτιον was sent to him to be renovated; this process consisted in scouring, — i.e. rubbing in ‘Cimolian clay’, a sort of white earth, — and carding (κνάπτω), to raise the nap. In Ar. Eccles. 415 and Athen. XIII. p. 582 we have people complaining of the γναφεύς who delays to send back their ἱμάτια by the promised day. Cp. Theophr. Char. XXII, where it is noted as a trait of the ἀνελεύθερος (the man who shows ‘excessive indifference to honour where expense is concerned’), that ‘he will stay in the house when he has sent his cloak to be scoured’ (ἔνδον μένειν ὅταν ἐκδῷ θοἰμάτιον ἐκπλῦναι).

προσεκαλεσάμην ‘summoned him before the Polemarch, supposing him to be a resident alien’. Harpocration p. 246 s.v. Πολέμαρχος (quoting Arist.'s Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) αὐτός τε εἰσάγει δίκας τάς τε ἀποστασίου καὶ ἀπροστασίου (for having deserted a προστάτης, or for having none) καὶ κλήρων καὶ ἐπικλήρων τοῖς μετοίκοις, καὶ τἄλλα ὅσα τοῖς πολίταις ὁ ἄρχων, ταῦτα τοῖς μετοίκοις ὁ πολέμαρχος. Herm. Ant. I. § 138. 10.

ὁπόθεν δημοτεύοιτο ‘to what deme he belonged’. Cp. [Dem.] or. LVII. Adv. Eubul. § 49, δημοτευόμενος (=δημότης ὤν) μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ.

παραινέσαντος, κ.τ.λ. ‘one of those who were with me’ [one of the κλητῆρες, or officers who assisted at the summons] ‘having recommended that I should also summon him’ [as he had evaded the citation before the Polemarch] ‘before the tribe of which he pretended to be a member’ (the adviser said, σκήπτεται: this becomes σκήπτοιτο after ἠρόμην). Before he could be brought under the jurisdiction of a tribe, it was necessary to ascertain his deme.