1. I cannot say much, gentlemen of the jury, about this case in hand, nor
does it seem to me to be necessary; but that I obtained leave to bring
the suit against Pancleon, not of Plataea, this I will try to show you.
2. As he had continued for some time to injure me, I went to the fuller's
shop where he worked, and summoned him before the polemarch, supposing
him to be an alien. And when he said he was a Plataean, I asked from what
deme he was, on the suggestion of a bystander that I should call him
before the tribe to which he pretended to belong. And as he answered from
Decelea, I summoned him before the judges of the tribe Hippothoontis;
then I went to the barber's shop near the Hermae, (3) where the Deceleans
congregate, and made inquiries, and whatever Deceleans I met I asked if
they knew a man by the name of Pancleon from the deme Decelea. And when
no one said he knew him, learning that he was defending some suits and
had lost others before the polemarch, I too obtained suit against him
there.
4. First then I will bring you as witnesses the Deceleans whom I inquired
of, then those who have had suits against him before the polemarch, and
convicted him, as many as are present. Now stop the water.