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13 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter D
   The names were derived in part from places, as in the case of Acharnae, Rhamnus, etc., and in part from the founders of the demes, as in the case of Erchia and of Daedalidae (Aristot. (15.07)

2. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter T
   ) Theodorus was of the demos of Erchia, which was also the birth-place of the historian Xenophon. (11.93)

3. Isaeus, Speeches speech 12, section hypothesis
   It is under this law that Euphiletus, having summoned the demesmen of Erchia on the ground that they had unjustly rejected him, instituted the present case. (8.30)

4. Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40 speech 40, section 16
   At the first we had Solon, of Erchia, registered as arbitrator, and submitted to him for decision the claims we advanced against each other. (6.92)

5. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter E
   Erchīa (6.40)

6. Sir Richard C. Jebb, The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos chapter 21, section 9, subsection 1
   Euphiletos, son of Hegesippos (§ 12) by a second wife, had been struck off the register of the deme of Erchia on the ground that he was illegitimate. (5.92)

7. Isaeus, Speeches speech 3, section 22
   Thus, when Xenocles went to our factory at the mines at Besa, he did not think it sufficient to rely on any chance person who happened to be there as witness regarding the eviction, but took with him from Athens Diophantus of Sphettus, who defended him in the former case, and Dorotheus of Eleusis, and his brother Philochares, and many other witnesses, having invited them to make a journey of nearly three hundred stades from here to there; yet when, on the question of the marriage of the grandmother of his own children, he was obtaining, as he declares, a written deposition in Athens itself, he is shown to have summoned none of his own friends but Dionysius of Erchia and Aristolochus of Aethalidae. (5.34)

8. Sir Richard C. Jebb, The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos chapter 12, section 1
   five years before the birth of Xenophon, a native of the same deme of Erchia, and seven years before the birth of Plato. (4.45)

9. Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 speech 59, section 84
   Call, please, Theogenes of Erchia. (3.52)

10. Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 speech 59, section 84
    DepositionTheogenes of Erchia deposes that when he was king he married Phano, believing her to be the daughter of Stephanus, and that, when he found he had been deceived, he cast the woman away and ceased to live with her, and that he expelled Stephanus from his post of assessor, and no longer allowed him to serve in that capacity. (3.34)

11. Aeschines, Speeches speech 3, section 138
    And yet in other days many men who had stood in the closest relations with the Thebans had gone on missions to them; first, Thrasymachus of Collytus, a man trusted in Thebes as no other ever was; again, Thrason of Erchia, proxenus of the Thebans; (3.34)

12. Isaeus, Speeches speech 12, section hypothesis
    (By Dionysius of Halicarnassus) The Deme of Erchia is summoned before the court by one of its members who has been rejected by its vote and who pleads that he is being unjustly disfranchised. (3.34)

13. Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30 speech 21, section 22
    Deposition[I, Pammenes, son of Pammenes, of Erchia, have a goldsmith's shop in the Agora, where I reside and carry on my business. (3.01)