The speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the law of succession to property at Athens . full conviction that your minds are intent upon nothing but Q the ??4 ONTHEESTATE the truth. Let your verdidt, therefore, judges, be favourableto me ; and coniider what evils will enfue from your decreein favour of Cleon : firft, you will fend to the monument, andthe fhrines of Aftyphilus, thole men who were objects of hisabhorrence ; next, you will difregard the commands of hisfather, who gave them with his laft breath, and will convic/tthe deceafed of confummate folly ; (for who that hears fucha decree,
The speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the law of succession to property at Athens . full conviction that your minds are intent upon nothing but Q the ??4 ONTHEESTATE the truth. Let your verdidt, therefore, judges, be favourableto me ; and coniider what evils will enfue from your decreein favour of Cleon : firft, you will fend to the monument, andthe fhrines of Aftyphilus, thole men who were objects of hisabhorrence ; next, you will difregard the commands of hisfather, who gave them with his laft breath, and will convic/tthe deceafed of confummate folly ; (for who that hears fucha decree, will not believe, that a man who could adopt thefon of his greateft enemy had loft his reafon through illnefs,or that his fenfes were impaired by poifon ??) and, laftly, youwill fuffer me, who was nurfed and educated with my bro-ther, to be ftripped of my fortune by this Cleon. I fupplicate,therefore, and implore you, judges, to decide the caufe in myfavour; for thus will you give fatisfaotion to the departed fpiritof Aftyphilus, and will defend me from a flagrant SPEECH. OF ARISTARCHUS. 115 SPEECH THE the Eftate of Aristarchus. ? II ? ARGUMENT. ARISTARCHUS having two fons, Cyronides and Demochares, and twodaughters, one of whom was the mother of the complainant, gm^pcip^tedCyronides and caufed him to be appointed rcprefentative of his maternalgrandfather Xenametus; leaving his other children to inherit his owneft ate. Demochares died without iiTue, and one of his daughters alfo diedchildlefs; fo that the whole fortune of Ariftarchus came by law to the com-plainants mother, who was the furviving daughter. After the death of Ariftarchus, his brother Afiftomenes, who was lawfulguardian to his children, gave his own daughter in marriage to Cyronides,and engaged to fupport his claim to all the poiTeffions of his father, by whomhe had been emancipated. Cyronides had a fon, who was named Ariftar-chus, and was admitted by Ariftomenes to the houfe and property of his
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