Harp., sv. epidietes hebesai: a proposito della maggiore età ad Atene secondo Didimo

[Machine translation] In his commentary on Demosthenes, Didimus states, in a completely isolated way from the rest of the available documentation, that in Athens children reached the age of majority at 14, an error that has been variously explained by assuming a confusion with Spartan law or with the Solonian division into age groups of 7 years each, but which could instead be related to Roman law, which fixed the end of the protection of boys when they reached puberty at 14, a confusion more understandable for the grammarian Alexandrian of the Roman age compared to the one with Spartan law.