The speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the law of succession to property at Athens . nce, though othersare more nearly related to the deceafed than his wife can pre-tend to be: yet he has neither appointed a fon to iupply theplace of his brother, but has fuffered his family to become ex-tinct, nor would he have acted otherwife wit . regard to myuncle; and he makes this claim, though Apollodorus had fogreat an averiion to him,, and a reconciliation never after-wards tookplace between This, judges^ you will con-fider; and will alfo recollect, that I am the nephew of the, deceaied? 86
The speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the law of succession to property at Athens . nce, though othersare more nearly related to the deceafed than his wife can pre-tend to be: yet he has neither appointed a fon to iupply theplace of his brother, but has fuffered his family to become ex-tinct, nor would he have acted otherwife wit . regard to myuncle; and he makes this claim, though Apollodorus had fogreat an averiion to him,, and a reconciliation never after-wards tookplace between This, judges^ you will con-fider; and will alfo recollect, that I am the nephew of the, deceaied? 86 ON THE ESTATE deceafed, and that the wife of Pronapis is only his coufm tthat fhe has inherited two eftates, whilft I fucceed to thisalone as a fon by adoption; that ihe laftly was not well in-clined to him, whofe property we claim, but that I and myfather were his real benefactors. Thus reflecting and reafon-ing with yourfelves, give a fentence agreeable to juftice: itwould be fuperfluous to add more ; for I am perfuaded, thatno part of my argument has efcaped your attention. SPEECH. OF G I R ? ?. 87 SPEECH THE SEVENTH. On the Eftate of Ciron. THE ARGUMENT. CIRON being dead without leaving a fon, his nephew entered upon hiseftate; and the clients of Ifasus brought an aftion to recover it, infilling that theyhad the better title as grandfons ofjhe deceafed by his legitimate daughter :there are two queftions in the caufe, an llfue of fair, whether the com-plainants were lawfully defcended from Ciron or not; and an iiTue in law,whether a daughters or a brothers fon has more right to the property of aninteftate. The writer of the Greek argument to this fpeech appears to havemiftaken the law of Athens, which will be more fully explained in the com-mentary. SPEECH 88 ON ? ? ? . ? S ? ;? ? ? SPEECH THE SEVENTH. The jGrandfons of Giro ? againft his Nephew. IT is impoflible, judges, to fupprefs our juft indignation,when men are not only bold enough to claim the propertyof others, but
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