Ἀπογραφή
deposition
Translated by David Whitehead8 Oct 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Whenever someone says that someone is in possession of some item of city property, the defendant makes a deposition, showing how much he has of it and how he came by it. Perhaps also the apographe is a kind of lawsuit. For if someone were to deny possessing such property, he was tried by apographe, on the basis that the [sc. original] deposition was improperly made. So [says] Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Androtion.1
Also [sc. attested is] apographe, [meaning] census.
"Caesar Augustus, the one who established the principate, chose 20 men, unsurpassed in how they had lived and behaved, and sent them out to the entire territory of his subjects; through them he conducted censuses of both people and property, fixing a certain portion of this as sufficient for a levy to the public treasury. This was the first census [of its kind?] - those before him not depriving the propertied class of anything, and so making it a grounds for public reproach against the affluent.2
Also [sc. attested is] apographe, [meaning] census.
"Caesar Augustus, the one who established the principate, chose 20 men, unsurpassed in how they had lived and behaved, and sent them out to the entire territory of his subjects; through them he conducted censuses of both people and property, fixing a certain portion of this as sufficient for a levy to the public treasury. This was the first census [of its kind?] - those before him not depriving the propertied class of anything, and so making it a grounds for public reproach against the affluent.2