[32]
But that this arrangement was made by your
father's grant and solemn injunction may not only be seen from the will, men of
Athens, but you yourself, Apollodorus, are a witness to the fact. For when you
claimed the right to distribute your mother's estate share by
share—and she had left children by the defendant,
Phormio—you then acknowledged that your father had given her with full
right, and that she had been married in accordance with the laws. For if Phormio
had taken her to wife wrongfully, and no one had given her—then the
children were not heirs, and if they were not heirs they had no right of sharing
in the property.1To prove that I am speaking
the truth in this evidence has been submitted showing that he received a fourth
share2 and
gave a release from all claims.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.