On the Estate of Philoctemon (36)

They inscribed these two boys before the archon as adopted children of the sons of Euctemon who had died,[*] inscribing themselves as guardians, and requested the archon to grant a lease of the house-property as being the property of orphans, in order that part of the property might be leased and part might be used as a security, and mortgage notices adfixed to it in the children's names during the lifetime of Euctemon, and they themselves might become lessees and receive the income.