3
My father (for the whole truth shall be told you, men of the jury) feared to come into court lest someone, on the ground of having elsewhere received some injury from him in his public life, should confront him here; and at the same time he was deceived by this man’s mother. For she had sworn that if he should tender her an oath in this matter, she would refuse it, and that, when this had been done, all relations between them would be at an end; and she had also had money deposited in the hands of a third party on her behalfThis money was evidently to be paid to her for fulfilling her promise to refuse the oath.;—on these conditions, then, my father tendered her the oath.
4
But she accepted it, and swore that not only the defendant, but his brother too, her other son, was my father’s child. When she had done this it was necessary to enter them among the clansmen,Admission to the clan was necessary, if full family rights were to be secured. and there was no excuse left. My father did enter them; he adopted them as his children and (to cut short the intervening matters) he enrolled the defendant at the ApaturiaThe Apaturia was a family festival occurring in the month Pyanepsion (October-November), and was the time when children were regularly registered in the list of clan-members. as Boeotus on the list of the clansmen, and the other as Pamphilus. But I had already been enrolled as Mantitheus.
