DOI Artikel:
Tarbell, Frank B.: The decrees of the Demotionidai: a study of the Attic Phratry
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.8678#0192
A STUDY OF THE ATTIC PHRATRY.
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wishes to appeal to the Demotionidai, he shall have the right. In these
cases the house of Dekeleians shall choose five men above thirty years
of age as advocates, to whom the phratriarch and the priest shall
administer an oath to be absolutely just in their advocacy and not to
allow any one illegally to belong to the phratry. And every appellant
rejected by the Demotionidai shall be fined 1000 drachmas, to be de-
voted to Zeus Phratrios. This money the priest of the house of Deke-
leians shall collect, or be responsible for the amount. And it shall
also be permissible for any other phrater who wishes to collect this for
the common fund. These provisions shall be in force from the archon-
ship of Phormion.
The phratriarch shall every year put to vote the cases of those for
whom a diadikasia is required. Otherwise, he shall be fined 500 drach-
mas, to be devoted to Zeus Phratrios. This money the priest, or any
one else who wishes, shall collect for the common fund.
In future the meia and the koureia shall be taken to the altar in
Dekeleia. And, if they be not sacrificed on the altar, the offender
shall be fined 50 drachmas, to be devoted to Zeus Phratrios. This
money the priest shall collect, or be responsible for the amount. . . .
And, if any of these causes prevent, the meia and the koureia shall be
taken to whatever place the priest may advertise, the said advertise-
ment to be made four days before the Dorpia on a whitewashed board
not less than a span broad at the usual resort, for the time being, of
the Dekeleians in the city.
This decree, together with the priest's portions, the priest shall have
engraved at his own expense on a stone stele in Dekeleia before the altar.
On the motion of Nikodemos: The earlier decrees in force in regard
to the introduction of children and the diadikasia are hereby amended
as follows:
The three witnesses whom it has been required to produce for the
examination shall be fellow-thiasotes of the applicant, testifying to the
matters of inquiry and confirming their word by an oath in the name
of Zeus Phratrios. And the witnesses shall touch the altar during
their testimony and oath. And, if there be not so many in the thiasos
in question, they shall be furnished from the other phraters.
At the diadikasia the phratriarch shall not permit the whole body
of phraters to vote in regard to the children, until the fellow-thiasotes
of the candidate himself have voted secretly, taking their ballots from
the altar. And the phratriarch shall count their ballots before the
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wishes to appeal to the Demotionidai, he shall have the right. In these
cases the house of Dekeleians shall choose five men above thirty years
of age as advocates, to whom the phratriarch and the priest shall
administer an oath to be absolutely just in their advocacy and not to
allow any one illegally to belong to the phratry. And every appellant
rejected by the Demotionidai shall be fined 1000 drachmas, to be de-
voted to Zeus Phratrios. This money the priest of the house of Deke-
leians shall collect, or be responsible for the amount. And it shall
also be permissible for any other phrater who wishes to collect this for
the common fund. These provisions shall be in force from the archon-
ship of Phormion.
The phratriarch shall every year put to vote the cases of those for
whom a diadikasia is required. Otherwise, he shall be fined 500 drach-
mas, to be devoted to Zeus Phratrios. This money the priest, or any
one else who wishes, shall collect for the common fund.
In future the meia and the koureia shall be taken to the altar in
Dekeleia. And, if they be not sacrificed on the altar, the offender
shall be fined 50 drachmas, to be devoted to Zeus Phratrios. This
money the priest shall collect, or be responsible for the amount. . . .
And, if any of these causes prevent, the meia and the koureia shall be
taken to whatever place the priest may advertise, the said advertise-
ment to be made four days before the Dorpia on a whitewashed board
not less than a span broad at the usual resort, for the time being, of
the Dekeleians in the city.
This decree, together with the priest's portions, the priest shall have
engraved at his own expense on a stone stele in Dekeleia before the altar.
On the motion of Nikodemos: The earlier decrees in force in regard
to the introduction of children and the diadikasia are hereby amended
as follows:
The three witnesses whom it has been required to produce for the
examination shall be fellow-thiasotes of the applicant, testifying to the
matters of inquiry and confirming their word by an oath in the name
of Zeus Phratrios. And the witnesses shall touch the altar during
their testimony and oath. And, if there be not so many in the thiasos
in question, they shall be furnished from the other phraters.
At the diadikasia the phratriarch shall not permit the whole body
of phraters to vote in regard to the children, until the fellow-thiasotes
of the candidate himself have voted secretly, taking their ballots from
the altar. And the phratriarch shall count their ballots before the