Thesauros Literature Oratory Κατὰ Τιμάρχου

Κατὰ Τιμάρχου

Κατὰ Τιμάρχου Aeschines
62 the fellow, angry at their insolent treatment, brings a suit against each of them.Proceedings in court in behalf of an ordinary slave would be conducted by his master in his own name; but Pittalacus was a state slave (Aeschin. 1.54). Probably he would have to bring suit under the name of some citizen as his protector (προστάτης).
62 When now the case was coming to trial, behold, another mighty stroke on the part of Hegesandrus! Here was a man who had done him no wrong, but, quite the opposite, had been wronged by him, a man on whom he had no claim, in fact, a slave belonging to the city; this man he attempted to enslave to himself, alleging that he was his owner. Now Pittalacus, reduced to desperate straits, falls in with a man—a very good man he is—one Glaucon of the deme Cholargus; he attempts to rescue Pittalacus and secure his freedom.
63 law-suits were next begun.Suits between Glaucon and Hegesandrus, who claimed that Pittalacus was a slave of his. As time went on they submitted the matter to the arbitration of Diopeithes of Sunium, a man of Hegesandrus’ own deme and one with whom he had had dealings in his younger years. Diopeithes undertook the case, but put it off again and again in order to favor these parties.

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