Timon Now for number three. Lawyer Demeas—my cousin, as he calls himself, with a decree in his hand. Between three and four thousand it was that I paid in to the Treasury in ready money for him; he had been fined that amount and imprisoned in default, and I took pity on him. Well, the other day he was distributing-officer of the festival money Every citizen had the right to receive from the State the small sum which would pay for his admission to theatrical or other festival entertainments. ; when I applied for my share, he pretended I was not a citizen.