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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.
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My father’s death happened before the entries were made on the register of the demesmen,Enrollment on the register of the deme marked the beginning of a young man’s political life. It took place when he reached the age of eighteen. but the defendant went and enrolled himself on the register as Mantitheus, instead of Boeotus. How great a wrong he did in this—to me, in the first place, but also to you—I shall show, as soon as I have brought forward witnesses to prove my assertions.
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The Witnesses
