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1. εἰς τοὺς δημότας ἐνε- γράφης: each deme was responsible for the correctness of its ληξιαρχικὸν γραμματεῖον, or list of citizens. Aristotle's Constitution of Athens (42.2) gives us clear information on the whole subject of the enrolment of new citizens. 2. ὁπωσδήποτε, somehow, with ἐπειδή γ᾽ ἐνεγράφης, refers to the story that his father was a slave, in which case it would have been impossible for the son to be legally enrolled as a citizen without an affirmative vote of 6000 in the Assembly; while the safeguards against illegal enrolment would have made this almost impossible. 4. γραμματεύειν: see §§ 162.5, 209.2. The occupation of a paid private clerk (not that of a clerk of the Senate or Assembly) was despised at Athens: see § 127.3, ὄλεθρος γραμματεύς.— ἀρχιδίοις, petty officers: ἀρχίδιον is here diminutive of ἀρχή in the sense of ἄρχων. See Aesch. III. 21, ἀρχὴν ὑπεύθυνον μὴ ἀποδημεῖν. 7. τῶν προϋπηργμένων, of your antecedents.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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