[410] Λοξίᾳ see note to 853.
ὥστ᾽ οὐ κρέοντος κ.τ.λ. “You charge me with being the tool of Creon's treason. I have a right to plead my own cause when I am thus accused. I am not like a resident alien, who can plead before a civic tribunal only by the mouth of that patron under whom he has been registered.” Every μέτοικος at Athens was required ἐπιγράφεσθαι προστάτην, i.e. to have the name of a citizen, as patron, inscribed over his own. In default, he was liable to an ἀπροστασίου γραφή. Aristoph. Peace 684 “αὑτῷ πονηρὸν προστάτην ἐπεγράψατο”: Aristoph. Ach. 1095 “ἐπεγράφου τὴν Γοργόνα,” you took the Gorgon for your patron: Lys. 31.9 “ἐν Ὠρωπῷ μετοίκιον κατατιθεὶς” （paying the alien's tax） ἐπὶ προστάτου ᾤκει. γεγράψομαι will stand enrolled: cp. Aristoph. Kn. 1370 “οὐδεὶς κατὰ σπουδὰς μετεγγραφήσεται, ι ἀλλ᾽ ὥσπερ ἦν τὸ πρῶτον ἐγγεγράψεται”: Theocr. 18. 47 γράμματα δ᾽ ἐν φλοιῷ γεγράψεται, remain written. —For the gen. Κρέοντος cp. Aristoph. Kn. 714 “τὸν δῆμον σεαυτοῦ νενόμικας.”This text is part of:
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