Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Euxitheus son of Thoucritus was struck off the lexiarchicon grammateion (or roll) of the deme Halimous (the Halimousioi), probably in the diapsephisis (revision) of 346/5 B.C. Speech 57 in the Demosthenic corpus (against Euboulides) is his reply to the demarch at the hearing of his appeal. This paper attempts (1) to correct the stemma given for him in J. K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600–300 B.C., pp. 94–5
1 Ath. Pol. 42.1; since he faced enslavement if he lost the case, it might be thought that he had confidence in it.
2 There are also arguments about her being a well-known seller of fillets in the agora without paying aliens' tax or being anyone's slave (30–1), and about her having been a wet nurse (35–6 and 44–5), which are not relevant to this paper.