Against Boeotus I

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.

The Witnesses