The speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the law of succession to property at Athens . r verdict, by fhowing in what mannertheir right accrued, and not by ejecting my mother before thetrial from her paternal inheritance. I fufpect indeed, that this Xensenetus is not fatisfied withhaving lavifhed the wealth of Ariftomenes in his unnaturalexcefles, but willies to fpend my fortune alfo with the famedifgraceful profufion ; whilft I, judges, with a contracted in-come, have given my filler in marriage with as large a por-tion as I could afford ; and, confeious of having conductedmyfelf with decen
The speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the law of succession to property at Athens . r verdict, by fhowing in what mannertheir right accrued, and not by ejecting my mother before thetrial from her paternal inheritance. I fufpect indeed, that this Xensenetus is not fatisfied withhaving lavifhed the wealth of Ariftomenes in his unnaturalexcefles, but willies to fpend my fortune alfo with the famedifgraceful profufion ; whilft I, judges, with a contracted in-come, have given my filler in marriage with as large a por-tion as I could afford ; and, confeious of having conductedmyfelf with decency, complied with the laws of my country,and ferved in its wars, have applied to this tribunal, that I maynot be wholly (tripped of my pofTefiions. 11 2 To 124 ON THE ESTATE To recapitulate the whole: I have proved that Cyronides,the father of thefe men, was emancipated and removed intoanother family, from which he never returned, that the fa-ther of Cyronides and of my mother let this eilate defcend tohis fon Demochares, and that, he dying childlefs, it devolvedupon my mother. SPEECH. ?? OF ? A G ? 1 A S. I2S SPEECH THE TENTH. On the Eftate of ? ag? ? as- THE ARGUMENT. AN attentive inflection of the annexed pedigree will give a clearer idea ofthis interefting cauie, than can be conveyed by words: it will there be feenthat Stratius and the elder Hagnias were brothers, Charidemus and Polemofirft coufins; and thatTTATGNTAS, whofe eftate is in quedion, was fecondcoufin both to Stratocles, whofe fon is the complainant, and to Iheopompus,whom Iftcus defends. On the death of HAGNIAS, firft his niece, and then his half-brother-!Glauco, took pofleffion of his effefts, on pretence that the deceafed had left 1them by will to his niece, with a remainder to Glauco ; but Philomache, thedaughter of his coufin Eubulides> proved the will to be forged, and obtaineda decree for the eftate. Theopompus then difputed the title of Philomache,and the former decree was reverfed in•his favour; but
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