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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Having withered you while you live I will lead you down so that you may give recompense for the miseries of your slaughtered mother. And if anyone else of mortals has done wrong, committing impiety against god or any stranger or his own parents, you will see him getting his just deserts. For Hades is a great euthunos of mortals below the ground, he oversees all things with his tablet-writing mind.
1 S.V. 
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2 The locus classicus for the role of 
at Athens is Ath. Pol. 48.4. See, however, Pierart, M., ‘Les EYYNOI atheniens’, L′Antiquite Classique 40 (1971), 526–573, who has demonstrated that accountability proceedings underwent considerable change between the early fifth century and the late fourth century.Google Scholar
3 Sommerstein, A., Aeschylus Eumenides (Cambridge, 1989), p. 130Google Scholar. Podlecki, A., Eumenides (Warminster, 1989), p. 152 also sees in the passage a reference to the 
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4 Sommerstein, p. 129. Citing Dem. 23.80, he notes that Orestes would be particularly susceptible to 
as someone who had entered a sacred place after incurring the pollution resulting from homicide
5 Rhodes, P. J., A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford, 1981), p. 562: ‘since retired officials were allowed thirty days within which to present their 
... it is more probable that a further thirty days were allowed for complaints to the 
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