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It has happened in the past that an indictment for illegality has resulted in a recipient being stripped of his citizenship. The law also forbids all naturalized citizens from becoming one of the nine archons or holding priesthoods. Apollodoros says that he will next explain how the law of naturalization came about.

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τῶν αἰτούντων: that is, the Athenians asking that someone be made a citizen

συνέβη < συμβαίνω: used impersonally; here takes an accusative + infinitive construction

ἀφείλετο τὸ δικαστήριον: τὸ δικαστήριον is the subject; the implied object is the grant of citizenship.

ἔργον: supply ἐστί: “it is [or would be] a lot of work to…”

Πειθόλαν…τὸν Θετταλόν: Peitholaos was the son of Jason, tyrant of Pherai in Thessaly (a region in central Greece).

Ἀπολλωνίδην τὸν Ὀλύνθιον: Apollonides was the leader of the anti-Macedonian party in Olynthos.

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κειμένων: “established”

πολιτείας: “citizenship”

ἐφ’ ἅπασι τούτοις: “in addition to all these [laws]”

κυριώτατος: “of greatest authority”

ὥστε…θύεσθαι: result clause after the idea of caution implied by πρόνοιαν ἐποιεῖτο (S. 2239)

ἐξεῖναι αὐτοῖς: “that it should be possible for them,” i.e., “that they be eligible”

ἱερωσύνης μηδεμιᾶς: this seems to contradict what is said in §104 (the decree granting the Plataians citizenship), where only access to hereditary priesthoods is restricted. It may be that a ban on all priesthoods for naturalized citizens was enacted later than the Plataians’ decree, or it may be that Apollodoros is simply exaggerating here.

τοῖς ἐκ τούτων: i.e., to their descendants

προσέθηκεν: “added the proviso”

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πόρρωθεν προδιηγήσασθαι: ”to explain in addition from long ago,” i.e., to explain the origins of, discuss the history of. πόρρωθεν = πρόσωθεν, “from long ago”

πρὸς οὓς διωρίσθη: “to whom it was applied.” διωρίσθη < διορίζω, “define, delimit.” The type of men is specified in the next phrase.

τούτων: “these things,” i.e., the historical discussion about to begin

ἀπόθετον: “reserved for” + dat.

ὅσων…ἀγαθῶν: neuter (“good things,” that is, “privileges”); genitive governed by κύριους (itself to be taken in predicate position vis-à-vis ὑμᾶς)

ὑμᾶς...κωλύουσι κυρίους: “are preventing you from being in charge of,” i.e., are removing from your control.

τούτῳ: dative governed by αὐτόν (“same to/as”).