[30]
And although my behavior was as I have described, this woman has had the hardihood to contest with me his fortune, she who never even saw fit to visit him during his long illness, though she had daily information about his condition, and though the journey was easy for her. To think that they will now attempt to “brother” him,1 as if the effect of calling the dead man by a mane of closer kinship would not be to make her shortcomings seem worse and more shocking!
1 ἀδελφίζειν, a rare word, “to call brother.”