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τῶν ζητητῶν ‘The Commission of Inquiry’ specially appointed by the Ecclesia. Cp. § 14, ἦσθα ζητητής, ὦ Διόγνητε, ὅτε Πυθόνικος εἰσήγγειλεν ἐν τῷ δήμῳ περὶ Ἀλκιβιάδου, ‘impeached A. in the Assembly’. ἐπὶ τῇ τοῦ δήμου κ. ‘with a view to the overthrow of the Commonwealth’. δήμου κατάλυσις, the crime of attempting to subvert the democratical government, — often coupled with the more general προδοσία τῆς πόλεως: for each there was a γραφή. Lysias's or. 25 is δήμου καταλύσεως ἀπολογία. τὸ σημεῖον καθέλοι ‘took down the signal’, — displayed from the βουλευτήριον to show that it was time to meet, and taken down when business was about to commence. There was a similar σημεῖον for the Ecclesia (Ar. Thesm. 277) and for the law-courts (Vesp. 690).
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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