5. Following these, I obtained leave for the suit before the polemarch.
But when he answered that the action was before the wrong court, wishing
very much to seem to no one willing to act in a lawless manner rather
than exact satisfaction for my wrongs, in the first place I asked
Euthycritus, whom I knew to be the oldest of the Plataeans and supposed
he would be most likely to know, if he was acquainted with a Plataean
Pancleon, son of Hipparmodorus. 6. And then, when he answered that he
knew Hipparmodorus, but he had no son, neither Pancleon nor any one else,
I asked all the Plataeans I knew. None of these knew the name, but they
said I should find out most accurately, if I should go into the new
cheese market on the last day of the month, for on that day each month
the Plataeans met there. 7. So going on that day to the cheese market, I
asked them if they knew any citizen of theirs by the name of Pancleon.
They all said they did not, except one, who said he knew of no citizen of
this name, but said he had had a runaway slave, Pancleon, and the age and
trade corresponded to this man's. 8. That this is the truth, I will bring
in as witnesses Euthycritus; whom I asked first, and the rest of the
Plataeans whom I approached, and the man who claims to be his master. Now
shut off the water.