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And he did this, men of the jury, though he was resident at Athens, and had a wife and children here, and although the laws have prescribed the severest penalties if anyone resident at Athens should transport grain to any other place than to the Athenian market; besides, he did this at a critical time, when those of you who dwelt in the city were having their barley-meal measured out to them in the Odeum,We learn from Aristoph. Wasps 1109, that the Odeum, built by Pericles as a music school, near the great theatre, was sometimes used as a law-court, and Pollux 8.33, states that suits concerning grain were decided there. Compare Dem. 59.52. It is easy, therefore, to assume that distribution of grain may have been made there. and those who dwelt in Peiraeus were receiving their loaves at an obol each in the dockyard and in the long-porch,The long-porch was a warehouse for grain in the Peiraeus. having their meal measured out to them a gallonLiterally a half-sixth (i.e. one-twelfth) of a medimnus, a measure containing about twelve gallons. at a time, and being nearly trampled to death.
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In proof that my words are true, take, please, the deposition and the law.
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The Deposition. The Law
