ἔφεσις πρὸς Εὐβουλίδην

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İngilizce Yunanca

23 These persons, then, the surviving relatives of my father, on both the male and the female side, have testified that he was on both sides an Athenian and justly entitled to the rights of citizenship.

23 (To the clerk.) Now call, please, the clansmen and thereafter the members of the gens.In the early period, before the reforms of Cleisthenes (509 B.C.), the four tribes into which the Athenians were at that time divided contained each three phratriae, or clans, and these in turn were divided into thirty γένη. Even after Cleisthenes the phratriae and γένη retained a position of religious, if no longer political, significance. To render γένος in this sense we have no better word than the Latin gens.

23 The Witnesses

23 Now take the depositions of the demesmen and the members of the gens in regard to the clansmen, to show that they elected me president of the clan.

23 The Depositions