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Nautodĭcae

ναυτοδίκαι). Commercial judges. At Athens a judicial board, having cognizance in disputes between traders and suits against foreigners who pretended to be citiizens. The former class of cases they settled themselves; the latter they prepared and brought before the Heliastic court. In Demosthenes' time they had ceased to exist, and both kinds of suits came under the jurisdiction of the Thesmothetae.

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