They inscribed these two boys before the archon as adopted children of the sons of Euctemon who had died,Philoctemon and Ergamenes (cf. Isaeus 6.44). 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.