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Moreover,
you are aware that, although anxious to exclude aliens from the contest, you do
not grant unlimited right to any chorus-master to summon for scrutiny any member
of a chorus1; if he summons
him, he is fined fifty drachmas, and a thousand drachmas if he orders him to sit
among the spectators. What is the object? To protect the crowned official, who
is doing public service to the god, from being maliciously summoned or annoyed
or insulted on that day.
1 If a chorus-master suspected that a member of a rival chorus was an alien, he must not forcibly eject him nor summon him before the Archon to prove his nationality.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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