Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Parengrapti

（παρέγγραπτοι) and Parengrăphi (παρέγγραφοι). A term given at Athens to those whose names were enrolled among the citizens without their being such by birth (φύσει) or special grant (δωρεᾷ). Such a person might be prosecuted by any Athenian citizen, the prosecution being called ξενίας γραφή, and if condemned his person and property were forfeited to the State, and he was sold as a slave (Demosth. Epist. iii. p. 1481.28). The δημόται had authority to strike from the rolls any such person who, if he acquiesced in their action, was merely relegated to the position of an alien; but if he appealed to the dicasts, and they refused to sustain his appeal, the heavier penalty was enforced.