Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Aprostasiou Graphé

（ἀπροστασίου γραφή). An action at Athens, falling under the jurisdiction of the polemarch, which was brought against those resident aliens who had neglected to provide themselves with a patron (προστάτης). It is probable that the aliens' tax was regularly paid through the προστάτης, and that he was responsible for it; and in that case the default of payment would of itself prove neglect to comply with the provisions of the law. See Meier, Att. Process, p. 315.