Afterwards,  when  he  was  claimed  by  Dionysius,  I  determined
to  vindicate  his  freedom,  knowing  that  he  had  been  manu-
mitted in  open  court  by  Epigenes.  But  on  these  points  I  will
Bay  no  more."

The  case  in  which  the  critic  quotes  from  an  oration  of
Lysias  was  in  principle  similar  to  one  that  had  occurred  many
years  before.     A  man  bearing  the  relation  of  guest  to  a  citizen


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Df  Athens  was  claimed  as  a  slave,  belonging  to  the  estate  of
one  Androcleides,  who,  it  was  asserted,  had  given  him  his  free-
dom. His  Athenian  friend  undertook  his  defence,  and  applied
to  Lysias  for  a  speech,  stating  to  him  the  facts  of  the  case.
