37. My grandfather, men of Athens, the father of my mother, was Damostratus of Melitê. To him were born four children; by his first wife a daughter and a son Amytheon, and by his second wife Chaerestratê my mother and Timocrates. These also had children. Amytheon had a son Damostratus, who bore the same name as his grandfather, and two others, Callistratus and Dexitheus. Amytheon, my mother’s brother, was one of those who served in the campaign in Sicily and were killed there, and he lies buried in the public tomb. These facts will be proved to you by testimony.
37. ἐμοὶ γὰρ ἦν πάππος, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τῆς μητρὸς πατήρ, Δαμόστρατος Μελιτεύς. τούτῳ γίγνονται τέτταρες παῖδες, ἐκ μὲν ἧς τὸ πρῶτον ἔσχεν γυναικὸς θυγάτηρ καὶ υἱὸς ᾧ ὄνομʼ Ἀμυθέων, ἐκ δὲ τῆς ὕστερον, Χαιρεστράτης, ἡ μήτηρ ἡ ἐμὴ καὶ Τιμοκράτης. τούτοις δὲ γίγνονται παῖδες, τῷ μὲν Ἀμυθέωνι Δαμόστρατος, τοῦ πάππου τοὔνομʼ ἔχων, καὶ Καλλίστρατος καὶ Δεξίθεος. καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἀμυθέων ὁ τῆς μητρὸς ἀδελφὸς τῶν ἐν Σικελίᾳ στρατευσαμένων καὶ τελευτησάντων ἐστίν, καὶ τέθαπται ἐν τοῖς δημοσίοις μνήμασιν· καὶ ταῦτα μαρτυρήσεται.
38. To Amytheon’s sister, who married Diodorus of Halae, was born a son Ctesibius, and he was killed in Abydus while serving in the campaign with Thrasybulus. Of these relatives there is living Damostratus, son of Amytheon and nephew of my mother. The sister of my grandmother Chaerestratê was married to Apollodorus of Plotheia. They had a son Olympichus, and Olympichus a son Apollodorus, who is still living. (To the clerk.) Call these people, please. The Witnesses These witnesses, then, you have heard giving their testimony and taking their oaths.
38. τῇ δʼ ἀδελφῇ αὐτοῦ συνοικησάσῃ Διοδώρῳ Ἁλαιεῖ υἱὸς γίγνεται Κτησίβιος. καὶ οὗτος μὲν ἐτελεύτησεν ἐν Ἀβύδῳ μετὰ Θρασυβούλου στρατευόμενος, ζῇ δὲ τούτων ὁ Δαμόστρατος ὁ τοῦ Ἀμυθέωνος, τῆς μητρὸς ἀδελφιδοῦς τῆς ἐμῆς. τῆς δὲ Χαιρεστράτης τῆς ἐμῆς τήθης τὴν ἀδελφὴν λαμβάνει Ἀπολλόδωρος Πλωθεύς· τούτων γίγνεται Ὀλύμπιχος, τοῦ δʼ Ὀλυμπίχου Ἀπολλόδωρος, καὶ οὗτος ζῇ. καί μοι κάλει αὐτούς. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ.
39. I will call also one who is our kinsman on both sides, and his sons. For Timocrates, who is my mother’s brother, born from the same father and the same mother, had a son Euxitheus, and Euxitheus had three sons. All these persons are still living. (To the clerk.) Call, please, those of them who are in the city. The Witnesses Now take, please, the depositions of the members of the clan belonging to the same gens as my mother, and of the members of the deme, and of those who have the right of burial in the same tombs.
39. τούτων μὲν τοίνυν ἀκηκόατε μαρτυρούντων καὶ διομνυμένων· τὸν δὲ [καὶ ὁμομήτριον] καὶ κατʼ ἀμφότερʼ ἡμῖν συγγενῆ καλῶ, καὶ τοὺς υἱεῖς αὐτοῦ. τῷ γὰρ Τιμοκράτει τῷ τῆς μητρὸς ἀδελφῷ τῆς ἐμῆς τῷ ὁμοπατρίῳ καὶ ὁμομητρίῳ γίγνεται Εὐξίθεος, τοῦ δʼ Εὐξιθέου τρεῖς υἱεῖς· οὗτοι πάντες ζῶσιν. καί μοι κάλει τοὺς ἐπιδημοῦντας αὐτῶν. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ.
40. The Depositions As to my mother’s lineage, then, I prove to you in this way that she was an Athenian on both the male and the female side. My mother, men of the jury, first married Protomachus, to whom she was given by Timocrates, her brother born of the same father and the same mother; and she had by him a daughter. Then she married my father and gave birth to me. But how it was that she came to marry my father you must hear; for the charges which my opponent makes regarding Cleinias and my mother’s having served as nurse—all this too I will set forth to you clearly.
40. λαβὲ δή μοι καὶ τὰς τῶν φρατέρων τῶν συγγενῶν τῶν τῆς μητρὸς καὶ δημοτῶν μαρτυρίας, καὶ ὧν τὰ μνήματα ταὐτά. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ. τὰ μὲν τοίνυν τοῦ γένους τοῦ τῆς μητρὸς οὕτως ὑμῖν ἐπιδεικνύω, καὶ πρὸς ἀνδρῶν καὶ πρὸς γυναικῶν ἀστήν. τῇ δὲ μητρὶ τῇ ἐμῇ γίγνεται, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐκ Πρωτομάχου, ᾧ αὐτὴν ὁ Τιμοκράτης ὁμομήτριος καὶ ὁμοπάτριος ὢν ἀδελφὸς ἔδωκεν, θυγάτηρ, εἶτʼ ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ ἐμοῦ ἐγώ. ὃν δὲ τρόπον τῷ πατρὶ τῷ ἐμῷ συνῴκησεν, ταῦθʼ ὑμᾶς ἀκοῦσαι δεῖ· καὶ γὰρ ἃ περὶ τὸν Κλεινίαν αἰτιᾶται καὶ τὸ τιτθεῦσαι τὴν μητέρα καὶ ταῦτα πάντʼ ἐγὼ σαφῶς ὑμῖν διηγήσομαι.
41. Protomachus was a poor man, but becoming entitled to inherit a large estate by marrying an heiress, and wishing to give my mother in marriage, he persuaded my father Thucritus, an acquaintance of his, to take her, and my father received my mother in marriage at the hands of her brother Timocrates of Melitê, in the presence of both his own uncles and other witnesses; and of these as many as are still living shall give testimony before you.
41. ὁ Πρωτόμαχος πένης ἦν· ἐπικλήρου δὲ κληρονομήσας εὐπόρου, τὴν μητέρα βουληθεὶς ἐκδοῦναι πείθει λαβεῖν αὐτὴν Θούκριτον τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἐμόν, ὄνθʼ ἑαυτοῦ γνώριμον, καὶ ἐγγυᾶται ὁ πατὴρ τὴν μητέρα τὴν ἐμὴν παρὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτῆς Τιμοκράτους Μελιτέως, παρόντων τῶν τε θείων ἀμφοτέρων τῶν ἑαυτοῦ καὶ ἄλλων μαρτύρων· καὶ τούτων ὅσοι ζῶσι, μαρτυρήσουσιν ὑμῖν.
42. Some time after this, when by now two children had been born to her, she was compelled at a time when my father was absent on military service with Thrasybulus and she herself was in hard straits, to take Cleinias, the son of Cleidicus, to nurse. This act of hers was, Heaven knows, none too fortunate with reference to the danger which has now come upon me (for it was from this nursing that all the slander about us has arisen); but in view of the poverty with which she had to cope she did what was perhaps both necessary and fitting.
42. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα χρόνῳ ὕστερον παιδίων αὐτῇ δυοῖν ἤδη γεγενημένων, καὶ τοῦ μὲν πατρὸς στρατευομένου καὶ ἀποδημοῦντος μετὰ Θρασυβούλου, αὐτὴ δʼ οὖσʼ ἐν ἀπορίαις ἠναγκάσθη τὸν Κλεινίαν τὸν τοῦ Κλειδίκου τιτθεῦσαι, τῷ μὲν εἰς ἔμʼ ἥκοντι κινδύνῳ νῦν μὰ τὸν Διʼ οὐχὶ συμφέρον πρᾶγμα ποιήσασα (ἀπὸ γὰρ ταύτης τῆς τιτθείας ἅπασʼ ἡ περὶ ἡμᾶς γέγονεν βλασφημία), τῇ μέντοι ὑπαρχούσῃ πενίᾳ ἴσως καὶ ἀναγκαῖα καὶ ἁρμόττοντα ποιοῦσα.
43. Now it is plain, men of Athens, that it was not my father who first received my mother in marriage. No; it was Protomachus, and he had by her a son, and a daughter whom he gave in marriage. And he, even though dead, bears testimony by what he did that my mother was an Athenian and of civic birth. To prove that these statements of mine are true,(to the clerk) call first, please, the sons of Protomachus, and next the witnesses who were present when my mother was betrothed to my father, and from the members of the clan the kinsfolk to whom my father gave the marriage-feast in honor of my mother. After them call Eunicus of Cholargus, who received my sister in marriage from Protomachus, and then my sister’s son. Call them. The Witnesses Would not my lot, men of Athens, be more piteous than that of any other, if, when all this host of witnesses deposes and swears that they are of my kin, and when no one disputes the citizenship of any one of these, you should vote that I am an alien?
43. φαίνεται τοίνυν οὐχ ὁ ἐμὸς πατὴρ πρῶτος, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, λαβὼν τὴν ἐμὴν μητέρα, ἀλλʼ ὁ Πρωτόμαχος, καὶ παῖδας ποιησάμενος καὶ θυγατέρʼ ἐκδούς· ὃς καὶ τετελευτηκὼς ὅμως μαρτυρεῖ τοῖς ἔργοις ἀστήν τʼ αὐτὴν καὶ πολῖτιν εἶναι. ὡς οὖν ταῦτʼ ἀληθῆ λέγω, κάλει μοι πρῶτον μὲν τοὺς τοῦ Πρωτομάχου υἱεῖς, ἔπειτα τοὺς ἐγγυωμένῳ παρόντας τῷ πατρὶ καὶ τῶν φρατέρων τοὺς οἰκείους, οἷς τὴν γαμηλίαν εἰσήνεγκεν ὑπὲρ τῆς μητρὸς ὁ πατήρ, εἶτʼ Εὔνικον Χολαργέα τὸν τὴν ἀδελφὴν λαβόντα τὴν ἐμὴν παρὰ τοῦ Πρωτομάχου, εἶτα τὸν υἱὸν τῆς ἀδελφῆς. κάλει τούτους. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ.
44. (To the clerk.) Take, please, also the deposition of Cleinias and that of his relatives; for they, I presume, know who my mother was who once served as his nurse. Their oath requires them to bear witness, not to what I say today, but to what they have always known regarding her who was reputed to be my mother and the nurse of Cleinias.
44. πῶς οὖν οὐκ ἂν οἰκτρότατʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, πάντων ἐγὼ πεπονθὼς εἴην, εἰ τῶν συγγενῶν ὄντων τοσούτων τουτωνὶ καὶ μαρτυρούντων καὶ διομνυμένων ἐμοὶ προσήκειν, μηδεὶς μηδενὶ τούτων ἀμφισβητῶν ὡς οὐκ εἰσὶ πολῖται, ἐμὲ ψηφίσαισθʼ εἶναι ξένον; λαβὲ δή μοι καὶ τὴν τοῦ Κλεινίου καὶ τὴν τῶν συγγενῶν αὐτοῦ μαρτυρίαν· οἳ ἴσασιν δήπου τίς οὖσά ποθʼ ἡ ἐμὴ μήτηρ ἐτίτθευσεν αὐτόν. οὐ γὰρ ἃ τήμερον ἡμεῖς φαμέν, εὔορκον αὐτοῖς μαρτυρεῖν, ἀλλʼ ἃ πάντα τὸν χρόνον ᾔδεσαν τὴν ἡμετέραν μὲν μητέρα, τιτθὴν δὲ τούτου νομιζομένην.
45. For even if a nurse is a lowly thing, I do not shun the truth. For it is not our being poor that would mark us as wrong-doers, but our not being citizens; and the present trial has to do, not with our fortune or our money, but with our descent. Many are the servile acts which free men are compelled by poverty to perform, and for these they should be pitied, men of Athens, rather than be brought also to utter ruin. For, as I am informed, many women have become nurses and laborers at the loom or in the vineyards owing to the misfortunes of the city in those days, women of civic birth, too; and many who were poor then are now rich. However, I shall speak of these matters by and by. (To the clerk.) For the moment, please call the witnesses. The Witnesses Well then, that I am a citizen on both my mother’s and my father’s side you have all learned, partly from the testimony which has just been given and partly from that previously given regarding my father.
45. καὶ γὰρ εἰ ταπεινὸν ἡ τιτθή, τὴν ἀλήθειαν οὐ φεύγω· οὐ γὰρ εἰ πένητες ἦμεν, ἠδικήκαμεν, ἀλλʼ εἰ μὴ πολῖται· οὐδὲ περὶ τύχης οὐδὲ περὶ χρημάτων ἡμῖν ἐστὶν ὁ παρὼν ἀγών, ἀλλʼ ὑπὲρ γένους. πολλὰ δουλικὰ καὶ ταπεινὰ πράγματα τοὺς ἐλευθέρους ἡ πενία βιάζεται ποιεῖν, ἐφʼ οἷς ἐλεοῖντʼ ἄν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, δικαιότερον ἢ προσαπολλύοιντο. ὡς γὰρ ἐγὼ ἀκούω, πολλαὶ καὶ τιτθαὶ καὶ ἔριθοι καὶ τρυγήτριαι γεγόνασιν ὑπὸ τῶν τῆς πόλεως κατʼ ἐκείνους τοὺς χρόνους συμφορῶν ἀσταὶ γυναῖκες, πολλαὶ δʼ ἐκ πενήτων πλούσιαι νῦν. ἀλλʼ αὐτίχʼ ὑπὲρ τούτων. νῦν δὲ τοὺς μάρτυρας κάλει. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ.
46. It remains for me to speak to you about myself—and my statement is, I think, the simplest and the most reasonable—, that, since I am of civic birth on the side of both parents and have shared by inheritance both the property and the family, I am a citizen. Nevertheless I will produce witnesses to establish also all the circumstances which befit a citizen—that I was inducted into the clan, that I was enrolled on the register of the demesmen, that by these men themselves I was nominated among the noblest-born to draw lots for the priesthood of Heracles, and that I passed the scrutiny and held offices. (To the clerk.) Call them, please. The Witnesses Is it not an outrage, men of the jury, that, whereas, if I had been chosen by lot as priest, even as I had been nominated, it would have been my duty to offer sacrifice on behalf of these people, and Eubulides would have had to join in the sacrifice with me,—is it not an outrage, I ask, that these same people should not allow me even to share in the sacrifices with them?
46. οὐκοῦν ὅτι μὲν καὶ τὰ πρὸς μητρός εἰμʼ ἀστὸς καὶ τὰ πρὸς πατρός, τὰ μὲν ἐξ ὧν ἄρτι μεμαρτύρηται μεμαθήκατε πάντες, τὰ δʼ ἐξ ὧν πρότερον περὶ τοῦ πατρός. λοιπὸν δέ μοι περὶ ἐμαυτοῦ πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰπεῖν, τὸ μὲν ἁπλούστατον οἶμαι καὶ δικαιότατον, ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων ἀστῶν ὄντα με, κεκληρονομηκότα καὶ τῆς οὐσίας καὶ τοῦ γένους, εἶναι πολίτην· οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ προσήκοντα πάντʼ ἐπιδείξω μάρτυρας παρεχόμενος, ὡς εἰσήχθην εἰς τοὺς φράτερας, ὡς ἐνεγράφην εἰς τοὺς δημότας, ὡς ὑπʼ αὐτῶν τούτων προὐκρίθην ἐν τοῖς εὐγενεστάτοις κληροῦσθαι τῆς ἱερωσύνης τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ, ὡς ἦρχον ἀρχὰς δοκιμασθείς. καί μοι κάλει αὐτούς. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ.
47. It is plain, then, men of Athens, that in all previous time I have been acknowledged as a citizen by all those who now accuse me; for surely Eubulides would never have suffered the foreigner or resident alien, as he now calls me, either to hold offices or to draw lots with himself as a nominee for the priesthood; for he too was one of the nominees who drew lots. Nor, men of Athens, seeing that he is an old enemy of mine, would he have waited for the present opportunity, which no one could foresee, if he had known any such facts regarding me. But he did not know them.
47. οὔκουν δεινόν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, εἰ μὲν ἔλαχον ἱερεύς, ὥσπερ προὐκρίθην, δεῖν ἄν με καὶ αὐτὸν θύειν ὑπὲρ τούτων καὶ τοῦτον μετʼ ἐμοῦ συνθύειν, νῦν δὲ τοὺς αὐτοὺς τούτους ἐμὲ μεθʼ αὑτῶν μηδὲ συνθύειν ἐᾶν; φαίνομαι τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τὸν μὲν ἄλλον χρόνον ἅπαντα παρὰ πᾶσιν τοῖς νῦν κατηγοροῦσι πολίτης ὡμολογημένος· οὐ γὰρ ἂν δήπου τόν γε ξένον καὶ μέτοικον, ὡς νῦν φησιν Εὐβουλίδης, οὔτʼ ἀρχὰς ἄρχειν οὔθʼ ἱερωσύνην κληροῦσθαι μεθʼ ἑαυτοῦ προκριθέντʼ εἴασεν· καὶ γὰρ οὗτος ἦν τῶν κληρουμένων καὶ προκριθέντων. οὐδέ γʼ ἄν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, παλαιὸς ὢν ἐχθρὸς ἐμοὶ τοῦτον τὸν καιρὸν περιέμενεν, ὃν οὐδεὶς ᾔδει γενησόμενον, εἴπερ τι συνῄδει τοιοῦτον.
49. So, then, although he continued throughout all the past to act as a member of the deme and to draw lots for offices together with me without seeing any of these objections, yet, when the whole city was roused to sharp indignation against those who had recklessly forced their way into the demes, then, and not till then, he laid his plots. The earlier time would have suited one who was convinced of the truth of his charges; but the present suits an enemy and one who will stoop to malicious pettifoggery.
49. ἀλλʼ οὐ συνῄδει· διόπερ τὸν μὲν ἄλλον ἅπαντα χρόνον δημοτευόμενος μετʼ ἐμοῦ καὶ κληρούμενος οὐδὲν ἑώρα τούτων, ἐπειδὴ δʼ ἡ πόλις πᾶσα τοῖς ἀσελγῶς εἰσπεπηδηκόσιν εἰς τοὺς δήμους ὀργιζομένη παρώξυντο, τηνικαῦτα μοι ἐπεβούλευσεν. ἦν δʼ ἐκεῖνος μὲν ὁ καιρὸς τοῦ συνειδότος αὑτῷ τἀληθῆ λέγειν, ὁ δὲ νυνὶ παρὼν ἐχθροῦ καὶ συκοφαντεῖν βουλομένου.
50. For my own part, men of the jury (and I beg you by Zeus and the gods, let no one make an outcry or be vexed at what I am going to say), I hold myself to be an Athenian on the same grounds on which each one of you holds himself to be one, having from the first regarded as my mother her whom I represent as such to you, and not pretending to be hers while really belonging to another; and in regard to my father the case is the same.
50. ἐγὼ δʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί (καί μοι πρὸς Διὸς καὶ θεῶν μηδεὶς θορυβήσῃ, μηδʼ ἐφʼ ᾧ μέλλω λέγειν ἀχθεσθῇ), ἐμαυτὸν Ἀθηναῖον ὑπείληφʼ ὥσπερ ὑμῶν ἕκαστος ἑαυτόν, μητέρʼ ἐξ ἀρχῆς νομίζων ἥνπερ εἰς ὑμᾶς ἀποφαίνω, καὶ οὐχ ἑτέρας μὲν ὢν ταύτης δὲ προσποιούμενος· πατέρα πάλιν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον.
51. Yet, if in the case of those who are proved to have hidden their real parentage and laid claim to a false one, you rightly hold this to be a proof that they are aliens, surely in my case the opposite should prove that I am a citizen. For in claiming the rights of citizenship I should never have inscribed myself as the son of parents who were both foreigners, but, if I had known any such thing, I should have sought out persons to claim as my parents. But I knew nothing of the sort, and so, holding fast to those who are my real parents, I claim Athenian citizenship.
51. καίτοι εἰ τοῖς ἐξελεγχομένοις ὧν μέν εἰσιν ἀποκρυπτομένοις, ὧν δʼ οὐκ εἰσὶν προσποιουμένοις, δίκαιον ὑπάρχειν παρʼ ὑμῖν τοῦτο σημεῖον ὡς εἰσὶ ξένοι, ἐμοὶ δήπου τοὐναντίον ὡς εἰμὶ πολίτης. οὐ γὰρ ἂν ξένην καὶ ξένον τοὺς ἐμαυτοῦ γονέας ἐπιγραψάμενος μετέχειν ἠξίουν τῆς πόλεως· ἀλλʼ εἴ τι τοιοῦτον συνῄδειν, ἐζήτησʼ ἂν ὧν φήσω γονέων εἶναι. ἀλλʼ οὐ συνῄδειν, διόπερ μένων ἐπὶ τοῖς οὖσιν δικαίως γονεῦσιν ἐμαυτῷ τῆς πόλεως μετέχειν ἀξιῶ.
52. Again, I was left an orphan; and yet they say that I am rich and that some of the witnesses testify that they are my relatives because they receive help from me. They taunt me with my poverty and make my birth a reproach, but at the same time they assert that I am rich enough to buy anything.
52. ἔτι τοίνυν ὀρφανὸς κατελείφθην, καὶ φασίν μʼ εὔπορον εἶναι καὶ τῶν μαρτύρων ἐνίους ὠφελουμένους μοι μαρτυρεῖν συγγενεῖς εἶναι. καὶ ἅμα μὲν κατʼ ἐμοῦ λέγουσιν τὰς ἐκ τῆς πενίας ἀδοξίας καὶ περὶ τὸ γένος διαβάλλουσιν, ἅμα δὲ διʼ εὐπορίαν φασὶ πάντα μʼ ὠνεῖσθαι.
53. In which statement, then, is one to believe them? It surely would have been their right, if I had been illegitimate or an alien, to inherit all my property. Do they prefer, then, to take a little and jeopardize themselves by giving false testimony and to commit perjury, rather than to take everything, and that with safety, without having invoked a curse upon their own heads? This is not the case. No; in my opinion, seeing that they are my relatives, they are but doing what is right in aiding one of themselves.
53. ὥστε πότερα χρὴ αὐτοῖς πιστεύειν; ἐξῆν δὲ δήπου τούτοις, εἰ νόθος ἢ ξένος ἦν ἐγώ, κληρονόμοις εἶναι τῶν ἐμῶν πάντων. εἶθʼ οὗτοι μικρὰ λαμβάνειν καὶ κινδυνεύειν ἐν ψευδομαρτυρίοις καὶ ἐπιορκεῖν μᾶλλον αἱροῦνται ἢ πάντʼ ἔχειν, καὶ ταῦτʼ ἀσφαλῶς, καὶ μηδεμιᾶς ἐξωλείας ὑπόχους ἑαυτοὺς ποιεῖν; οὐκ ἔστι ταῦτα, ἀλλʼ οἶμαι συγγενεῖς ὄντες τὰ δίκαια ποιοῦσι, βοηθοῦντες αὑτῶν ἑνί.
54. And they are not doing this at this time because I have induced them to do so; on the contrary, when I was a child they at once took me to the clansmen, they took me to the temple of Apollo our ancestral god, and to the other sacred places. And yet I presume that as a child I did not induce these men to do this by giving them money. No; my father himself, while he still lived, swore the customary oath and introduced me to the clansmen, knowing that I was an Athenian, born of an Athenian mother, lawfully betrothed to himself; and these facts have been established by testimony.
54. καὶ ταῦτʼ οὐχὶ νῦν πεπεισμένοι ποιοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ παιδίον ὄντα μʼ εὐθέως ἦγον εἰς τοὺς φράτερας, εἰς Ἀπόλλωνος πατρῴου [ἦγον], εἰς τἄλλʼ ἱερά. καίτοι οὐ δήπου παῖς ὢν ἐγὼ ταῦτʼ ἔπειθον αὐτοὺς ἀργύριον διδούς. ἀλλὰ μὴν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτὸς ζῶν ὀμόσας τὸν νόμιμον τοῖς φράτερσιν ὅρκον εἰσήγαγέν με, ἀστὸν ἐξ ἀστῆς ἐγγυητῆς αὑτῷ γεγενημένον εἰδώς, καὶ ταῦτα μεμαρτύρηται.
55. Am I, then, an alien? Where have I paid the resident alien’s tax? Or what member of my family has ever paid it? Have I ever gone to the members of another deme and, because I could not induce them to accept me, got myself registered in this one? Have I done any of the things which all those who are not genuine citizens are proved to have done? Certainly not. No; in a word I manifestly have lived as a member of the deme among the same people among whom my father’s grandfather, my own grandfather, and my father himself lived. And now, how could anyone prove to you more convincingly than I have done that he is entitled to the rights of citizenship?
55. εἶτʼ ἐγὼ ξένος; ποῦ μετοίκιον καταθείς; ἢ τίς τῶν ἐμῶν πώποτε; ποῦ πρὸς ἄλλους δημότας ἐλθών, καὶ οὐ δυνηθεὶς ἐκείνους πεῖσαι δεῦρʼ ἐμαυτὸν ἐνέγραψα; ποῦ τί ποιήσας ὧν ὅσοι μὴ καθαρῶς ἦσαν πολῖται πεποιηκότες φαίνονται; οὐδαμοῦ, ἀλλʼ ἁπλῶς, ἐν οἷς ὁ πάππος ὁ τοῦ πατρός, ὁ ἐμός, ⟨ὁ⟩ πατήρ, ἐνταῦθα καὶ αὐτὸς φαίνομαι δημοτευόμενος. καὶ νῦν πῶς ἄν τις ὑμῖν σαφέστερον ἐπιδείξειεν μετὸν τῆς πόλεως αὑτῷ;
56. Let each one of you consider, men of Athens, in what other way he could prove that people are his kinsmen than in the way in which I have proved it—by having them give testimony under oath and showing that they have always been my kinsmen from the beginning. It is for these reasons that I have confidence in my case and have come to you for protection. For I see, men of Athens, that the decisions of your courts are more valid not only than those of the Halimusians who have expelled me, but more valid even than those of the senate and the popular assembly; and justly so; for in all respects the verdicts of your courts are most just.
56. ἐνθυμείσθω γὰρ ἕκαστος ὑμῶν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τοὺς ἑαυτῷ προσήκοντας τίνʼ ἄλλον ἂν δύναιτʼ ἐπιδεῖξαι τρόπον ἢ τὸν αὐτὸν ἐμοί, μαρτυροῦντας, ὀμνύοντας, πάλαι τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς ὄντας; διὰ ταῦτα τοίνυν ἐγὼ πιστεύων ἐμαυτῷ κατέφυγον εἰς ὑμᾶς. ὁρῶ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, οὐ μόνον τῶν ἀποψηφισαμένων Ἁλιμουσίων ἐμοῦ κυριώτερʼ ὄντα τὰ δικαστήρια, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς βουλῆς καὶ τοῦ δήμου, δικαίως· κατὰ γὰρ πάνθʼ αἱ παρʼ ὑμῖν εἰσι κρίσεις δικαιόταται.
57. Reflect upon this also, all you who belong to the large demes, that you are not wont to deprive any man of his right of accusation and defence. And I invoke many blessings upon the heads of all of you who have dealt fairly with this matter, because you did not deprive of the opportunity to prepare their case those who asked for a delay. By taking this course you exposed the pettifoggers and those who were maliciously scheming against others.
57. ἐνθυμεῖσθε τοίνυν κἀκεῖνο, ὅσοι τῶν μεγάλων δήμων ἐστέ, ὡς οὐδένʼ ἀπεστερεῖτʼ οὔτε κατηγορίας οὔτʼ ἀπολογίας. καὶ πόλλʼ ἀγαθὰ γένοιτο πᾶσιν ὑμῖν τοῖς δικαίως τούτῳ τῷ πράγματι χρησαμένοις, ὅτι καὶ τῶν ἀναβαλέσθαι δεομένων οὐκ ἀφῄρησθε τὸ παρασκευάσασθαι· ᾧ καὶ τοὺς συκοφαντοῦντας καὶ διʼ ἔχθραν ἐπιβουλεύοντας ἐξηλέγχετε.
58. You are deserving of praise for this, men of Athens; but those are to be blamed who have misused a procedure that was both admirable and just. In no other of the demes will you find that more outrageous things have been done than in ours. Of brothers born of the same mother and the same father they have expelled some and retained others, and they have expelled elderly men of slender means, while they have left their sons on the list of demesmen; and to prove these things I will call witnesses, if you wish.
58. καὶ ὑμᾶς μὲν ἄξιον ἐπαινεῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τοὺς δὲ καλῷ καὶ δικαίῳ πράγματι μὴ καλῶς χρησαμένους ψέγειν. ἐν οὐδενὶ τοίνυν εὑρήσετε τῶν δήμων δεινότερα γεγενημένα τῶν παρʼ ἡμῖν. οὗτοι γὰρ ἀδελφῶν ὁμομητρίων καὶ ὁμοπατρίων τῶν μέν εἰσιν ἀπεψηφισμένοι, τῶν δʼ οὔ, καὶ πρεσβυτέρων ἀνθρώπων ἀπόρων, ὧν τοὺς υἱεῖς ἐγκαταλελοίπασιν· καὶ τούτων ἂν βούλησθε, μάρτυρας παρέξομαι.
59. But you must hear the most outrageous thing which these conspirators have done (and I beg you in the name of Zeus and the gods, let no one of you be offended if I show the rascality of these men who have wronged me. For I hold that in showing what scoundrels they are I am speaking with precise reference to the experience which has befallen me). For, you must know, men of Athens, that when certain aliens, Anaximenes and Nicostratus, wished to become citizens, these scoundrels admitted them for a sum of money, which they divided among themselves, receiving five drachmae apiece. Eubulides and his clique will not deny on oath that they have knowledge of this; and now in this last revision they did not expel these men. Do you think, then, that there is anything that they would not do in private, seeing that in a public matter they dared this?
59. ὃ δὲ πάντων δεινότατον οἱ συνεστηκότες πεποιήκασιν (καί μοι πρὸς Διὸς καὶ θεῶν μηδεὶς ὑπολάβῃ δυσκόλως, ἐὰν τοὺς ἠδικηκότας ἐμαυτὸν πονηροὺς ὄντας ἐπιδεικνύω· νομίζω γὰρ ὑμῖν τὴν τούτων πονηρίαν δεικνὺς εἰς αὐτὸ τὸ πρᾶγμα λέγειν τὸ γενόμενόν μοι)· οὗτοι γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, βουλομένους τινὰς ἀνθρώπους ξένους πολίτας γενέσθαι, Ἀναξιμένην καὶ Νικόστρατον, κοινῇ διανειμάμενοι πέντε δραχμὰς ἕκαστος προσεδέξαντο. καὶ ταῦτʼ οὐκ ἂν ἐξομόσαιτʼ Εὐβουλίδης οὐδʼ οἱ μετʼ αὐτοῦ μὴ οὐκ εἰδέναι. καὶ νῦν τούτων οὐκ ἀπεψηφίσαντο. τί οὖν οὐκ ἂν οἴεσθε τούτους ἰδίᾳ ποιῆσαι, οἳ κοινῇ ταῦτʼ ἐτόλμων;
60. There are many people indeed, men of the jury, whom Eubulides and his clique have destroyed or have saved for money. For even at an earlier time (and my words shall bear upon the matter in hand, men of Athens) Antiphilus, the father of Eubulides, when he was prefect of the deme, as I have told you, made use of trickery in his desire to get money from certain persons, and asserted that he had lost the public register; and he thereby induced the Halimusians to revise their list of members, denounced ten of their number, and had them expelled; all of whom with one exception the court of justice restored. These facts all the older ones know.
60. πολλούς, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, οἱ μετʼ Εὐβουλίδου συνεστῶτες καὶ ἀπολωλέκασιν καὶ σεσῴκασιν ἕνεκʼ ἀργυρίου. ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸ πρότερον (ἐρῶ δʼ εἰς αὐτὸ τὸ πρᾶγμʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι) δημαρχῶν ὁ Εὐβουλίδου πατήρ, ὥσπερ εἶπον, Ἀντίφιλος, τεχνάζει βουλόμενος παρά τινων λαβεῖν ἀργύριον, καὶ ἔφη τὸ κοινὸν γραμματεῖον ἀπολωλέναι, ὥστʼ ἔπεισε διαψηφίσασθαι τοὺς Ἁλιμουσίους περὶ αὑτῶν, καὶ κατηγορῶν δέκα τῶν δημοτῶν ἐξέβαλεν, οὓς ἅπαντας πλὴν ἑνὸς κατεδέξατο τὸ δικαστήριον. καὶ ταῦτα πάντες ἴσασιν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι.
61. It is unlikely indeed that they left on the list any who were not Athenians, when they conspired to expel even men who were citizens, whom the court restored. And although he was a personal enemy of my father at the time, Eubulides not only did not denounce him, but did not even cast his vote that he was not an Athenian. How is this proved? Because my father was declared by all the votes to be a member of the deme. But what need is there to speak of our fathers? Eubulides himself, when I was entered on the register and all the demesmen after taking the oath cast their votes regarding me as the law prescribes, neither denounced me nor cast his vote against me; for in this case again they all voted that I was a member of the deme. And, if they say that I am lying about this, let anyone who wishes give evidence to the contrary in the time allotted to me.
61. πολλοῦ γʼ ἔδεόν τινας ἐγκαταλιπεῖν τῶν μὴ Ἀθηναίων, ὅπου καὶ τοὺς ὄντας πολίτας συνιστάμενοι ἐξέβαλον, οὓς τὸ δικαστήριον κατεδέξατο. καὶ ὢν ἐχθρὸς τῷ ἐμῷ πατρὶ τότʼ οὐ μόνον οὐ κατηγόρησεν, ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ τὴν ψῆφον ἤνεγκεν ὡς οὐκ ἦν Ἀθηναῖος. τῷ τοῦτο δῆλον; ὅτι ἁπάσαις ἔδοξεν δημότης εἶναι. καὶ τί δεῖ περὶ τῶν πατέρων λέγειν; ἀλλʼ Εὐβουλίδης αὐτὸς οὑτοσί, ἡνίκʼ ἐνεγράφην ἐγὼ καὶ ὀμόσαντες οἱ δημόται δικαίως πάντες περὶ ἐμοῦ τὴν ψῆφον ἔφερον, οὔτε κατηγόρησεν οὔτʼ ἐναντίαν τὴν ψῆφον ἤνεγκεν· καὶ γὰρ ἐνταῦθα πάλιν ἐμὲ πάντες ἐψηφίσαντο δημότην. καὶ εἴ φασίν με τοῦτο ψεύδεσθαι, ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐμοῦ ὕδατος ὅστις βούλεται τούτων τἀναντία μαρτυρησάτω.
62. If, then, men of Athens, my opponents seem to have a very strong argument in the fact that in the present instance the demesmen have rejected me, I point out to you that on four previous occasions, when they gave their votes in accordance with their oaths without entering into a conspiracy, they voted that both I and my father were their fellow-demesmen—first, when my father passed the scrutiny; secondly, when I did so; then, in the former revision, after these men had made away with the register; and, finally, when they nominated me among the noblest-born and voted that I should draw lots for the priesthood of Heracles. All these facts have been established by testimony.
62. εἰ τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τοῦτο δοκοῦσιν οὗτοι λέγειν μάλιστʼ ἰσχυρόν, ὡς ἀπεψηφίσαντό μου νῦν οἱ δημόται, ἐγὼ τετράκις ἐπιδεικνύω πρότερον, ὅθʼ ὁσίως ἄνευ συστάσεως ἐψηφίσαντο, καὶ ἐμὲ καὶ τὸν πατέρα δημότας αὑτῶν εἶναι ψηφισαμένους, πρῶτον μέν γε τοῦ πατρὸς δοκιμασθέντος, εἶτʼ ἐμοῦ, εἶτʼ ἐν τῇ προτέρᾳ διαψηφίσει, ὅτʼ ἠφάνισαν οὗτοι τὸ γραμματεῖον· τὸ δὲ τελευταῖον προκρίναντες ἐμὲ ἐψηφίσαντʼ ἐν τοῖς εὐγενεστάτοις κληροῦσθαι τῆς ἱερωσύνης τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ. καὶ ταῦτα πάντα μεμαρτύρηται.
63. If it be right for me to speak of my administration as prefect, because of which I incurred the anger of many, and in the course of which I became involved in quarrels because I required some of the demesmen to pay the rents which they owed for sacred lands and to refund other sums which they had embezzled from the public moneys, I should be very glad to have you listen to me; but perhaps you will hold that these matters are foreign to the subject before us. However, I am able to point to this as a positive proof of their conspiracy. For they struck out of the oath the clause that they would vote according to their unbiassed judgement and without favor or malice.
63. εἰ δὲ δεῖ τὴν δημαρχίαν λέγειν, διʼ ἣν ὠργίζοντό μοί τινες, ἐν ᾗ διάφορος ἐγενόμην εἰσπράττων ὀφείλοντας πολλοὺς αὐτῶν μισθώσεις τεμενῶν καὶ ἕτερʼ ἃ τῶν κοινῶν διηρπάκεσαν, ἐγὼ μὲν ἂν βουλοίμην ὑμᾶς ἀκούειν, ἀλλʼ ἴσως ἔξω τοῦ πράγματος ὑπολήψεσθε ταῦτʼ εἶναι. ἐπεὶ καὶ τοῦτʼ ἔχω δεικνύναι τεκμήριον ὡς συνέστησαν· ἔκ τε γὰρ τοῦ ὅρκου ἐξήλειψαν τὸ ψηφιεῖσθαι γνώμῃ τῇ δικαιοτάτῃ καὶ οὔτε χάριτος ἕνεκʼ οὔτʼ ἔχθρας·
64. This became a matter of general knowledge, as did also the fact that the demesmen from whom I had exacted repayment of the public moneys swore a conspiracy against me, and by a sacrilegious theft stole from the temple the shields which I had dedicated to Athena (for the truth shall be told), and chiseled out the decree which the demesmen had passed in my honor. And they have come to such a pitch of shamelessness that they went about saying that I had done this for the sake of my defence. Yet what man among you, men of the jury, would judge me so utterly insane as to commit an act punishable with death in order to secure so mighty a bit of evidence for my case, and then myself to destroy an inscription which brought me honor?
64. καὶ γὰρ τοῦτο φανερὸν ἐγένετο καὶ ὅτι ἱεροσυλήσαντες τὰ ὅπλα (εἰρήσεται γάρ), ἃ ἐγὼ ἀνέθηκα τῇ Ἀθηνᾷ, καὶ τὸ ψήφισμʼ ἐκκολάψαντες ὃ ἐμοὶ ἐψηφίσανθʼ οἱ δημόται, συνώμνυον οὗτοι ἐπʼ ἐμὲ οἱ ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ τὰ κοινὰ εἰσπραχθέντες. καὶ εἰς τοσοῦτʼ ἀναιδείας ἐληλύθασιν, ὥστʼ ἔλεγον περιιόντες ἐμὲ τῆς ἀπολογίας ἕνεκα ταῦτα ποιῆσαι. καὶ τίς ὑμῶν ἂν καταγνοίη μου τοσαύτην μανίαν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ὥστε τηλικούτων ἕνεκα πρὸς τὸ πρᾶγμα τεκμηρίων ἄξια θανάτου διαπράξασθαι, καὶ ἃ ἐμοὶ φιλοτιμίαν ἔφερεν, ταῦτʼ ἀφανίζειν;
65. But the most outrageous act of all I fancy they would hardly say that I myself contrived. For hardly had my misfortune come about, when immediately, as if I were already an exile and a ruined man, some of these people went by night to my cottage in the country and attempted to carry off what was there; so utter was their contempt for you and for your laws. If you wish, I will call persons who know the facts.
65. τὸ δὲ πάντων δεινότατον οὐ δήπου γε φήσαιεν ἂν ἐμὲ κατασκευάσαι. οὐ γὰρ ἔφθη μοι συμβᾶσʼ ἡ ἀτυχία καὶ εὐθύς, ὥσπερ φυγάδος ἤδη μου ὄντος καὶ ἀπολωλότος, τούτων τινὲς ἐπὶ τὸ οἰκίδιον ἐλθόντες ⟨τὸ⟩ ἐν ἀγρῷ νύκτωρ ἐπεχείρησαν διαφορῆσαι τὰ ἔνδοθεν· οὕτω σφόδρʼ ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν νόμων κατεφρόνησαν. καὶ ταῦτα τοὺς εἰδότας, ἐὰν βούλησθε, καλοῦμεν.
66. Many are the other deeds of theirs which I could point out and many the falsehoods which they have told, which I should be glad to enumerate to you; but as you consider these alien to the matter in hand, I will leave them out. Bear in mind, however, the following points, and see how many just arguments I have in coming before you. For, just as you question the Thesmothetae in their scrutiny, I will in the same manner question myself before you.
66. πολλὰ δʼ ἔχων καὶ ἄλλʼ ἐπιδεῖξαι, ἃ τούτοις ἐστὶν διαπεπραγμένα καὶ ἅ εἰσιν ἐψευσμένοι, ἡδέως μὲν ἂν ὑμῖν λέγοιμι, ἐπειδὴ δʼ ἔξω τοῦ πράγματος νομίζετʼ εἶναι, ἐάσω. ἀναμνήσθητε δʼ ἐκείνων καὶ θεάσασθε, ὡς πολλὰ καὶ δίκαιʼ ἔχων πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἥκω. ὥσπερ γὰρ τοὺς θεσμοθέτας ἀνακρίνετε, ἐγὼ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἐμαυτὸν ὑμῖν ἀνακρινῶ.
67. “Sir, who was your father?” “My father? Thucritus.” “Do any of your relatives give testimony in his favor?” “Certainly; first, four cousins; then, the son of a cousin; then, those who are married to the female cousins; then, the clansmen; then, those of the gens who worship Apollo, our ancestral god, and Zeus, the god of the household; then, those who have the right to the same places of burial; then, the members of the deme, who testify that he has often passed the scrutiny and held office, and who are shown themselves to have cast their votes in his favor.” In all that concerns my father, then, how could I prove my case to you more fairly or more convincingly? I will call my relatives before you, if you so wish.
67. ὦ ἄνθρωπε, τίς ἦν σοι πατήρ; ἐμοί; Θούκριτος. οἰκεῖοί τινες εἶναι μαρτυροῦσιν αὐτῷ; πάνυ γε, πρῶτον μέν γε τέτταρες ἀνεψιοί, εἶτʼ ἀνεψιαδοῦς, εἶθʼ οἱ τὰς ἀνεψιὰς λαβόντες αὐτῷ, εἶτα φράτερες, εἶτʼ Ἀπόλλωνος πατρῴου καὶ Διὸς ἑρκείου γεννῆται, εἶθʼ οἷς ἠρία ταὐτά, εἶθʼ οἱ δημόται πολλάκις αὐτὸν δεδοκιμάσθαι καὶ ἀρχὰς ἄρξαι, καὶ αὐτοὶ διεψηφισμένοι φαίνονται. τὰ μὲν τοίνυν περὶ τοῦ πατρὸς πῶς ἂν ὑμῖν δικαιότερον ἢ καθαρώτερον ἐπιδείξαιμι; καλῶ δʼ ὑμῖν τοὺς οἰκείους, εἰ βούλεσθε. τὰ δὲ περὶ τῆς μητρὸς ἀκούσατε.
68. Now hear the facts regarding my mother. My mother is Nicaretê, the daughter of Damostratus of Melitê. Who among her relatives give testimony? First, a nephew; then, two sons of her other nephew; then, the son of a cousin; then the sons of Protomachus, who was my mother’s former husband; then, Eunicus, of Cholargus, who married my sister, the daughter of Protomachus; then, my sister’s son.
68. ἐμοὶ γάρ ἐστιν μήτηρ Νικαρέτη Δαμοστράτου θυγάτηρ Μελιτέως. ταύτης τίνες οἰκεῖοι μαρτυροῦσιν; πρῶτον μὲν ἀδελφιδοῦς, εἶτα τοῦ ἑτέρου ἀδελφιδοῦ δύʼ υἱοί, εἶτʼ ἀνεψιαδοῦς, εἶθʼ οἱ Πρωτομάχου υἱεῖς τοῦ λαβόντος τὴν ἐμὴν μητέρα πρότερον, εἶθʼ ὁ τὴν ἀδελφὴν τὴν ἐμὴν τὴν ἐκ τοῦ Πρωτομάχου γήμας Εὔνικος Χολαργεύς, εἶθʼ υἱὸς τῆς ἀδελφῆς.
69. More than this, the clansmen and the demesmen of her relatives have given this testimony. Of what, then, could you have further need? Yet again, that my father married my mother according to the laws, and that he gave a marriage-feast to the members of the clan, has been proved by testimony. And besides all this, I have shown that I myself have shared in all the privileges which befit free men. On all grounds, therefore, you will act in accordance with your oaths, if you give your verdict in my favour as justice and right demand.
69. ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ φράτερες τῶν οἰκείων αὐτῆς καὶ δημόται ταῦτα μεμαρτυρήκασι. τίνος οὖν ἂν προσδέοισθε; καὶ γὰρ ὅτι κατὰ τοὺς νόμους ὁ πατὴρ ἔγημεν καὶ γαμηλίαν τοῖς φράτερσιν εἰσήνεγκεν μεμαρτύρηται. πρὸς δὲ τούτοις καὶ ἐμαυτὸν ἐπέδειξα πάντων μετειληφόθʼ ὅσων προσήκει τοὺς ἐλευθέρους. ὥστε πανταχῇ δικαίως καὶ προσηκόντως ἡμῖν ἂν προσθέμενοι τὴν ψῆφον εὐορκοίητε.
70. Furthermore, men of the jury, when you question the nine archons, you ask whether they act dutifully toward their parents. I for my part am left without a father, but for my mother’s sake I beg and beseech you so to settle this trial as to restore to me the right to bury her in our ancestral tomb. Do not deny me this; do not make me a man without a country; do not cut me off from such a host of relatives, and bring me to utter ruin. Rather than abandon them, if it prove impossible for them to save me, I will kill myself, that at least I may be buried by them in my country.
70. ἔτι τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τοὺς ἐννέα ἄρχοντας ἀνακρίνετε, εἰ γονέας εὖ ποιοῦσιν. ἐγὼ δὲ τοῦ μὲν πατρὸς ὀρφανὸς κατελείφθην, τὴν δὲ μητέρʼ ἱκετεύω ὑμᾶς καὶ ἀντιβολῶ διὰ τοῦτον τὸν ἀγῶνʼ ἀπόδοτέ μοι θάψαι εἰς τὰ πατρῷα μνήματα καὶ μή με κωλύσητε, μηδʼ ἄπολιν ποιήσητε, μηδὲ τῶν οἰκείων ἀποστερήσητε τοσούτων ὄντων τὸ πλῆθος, καὶ ὅλως ἀπολέσητε. πρότερον γὰρ ἢ προλιπεῖν τούτους, εἰ μὴ δυνατὸν ὑπʼ αὐτῶν εἴη σωθῆναι, ἀποκτείναιμʼ ἂν ἐμαυτόν, ὥστʼ ἐν τῇ πατρίδι γʼ ὑπὸ τούτων ταφῆναι.