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Now, with regard to this adoption, we will
show you plainly later on what its character was; but with reference to blood
relationship, I must prove to you that they are not nearer of kin than we. One
thing is admitted, that in the matter of inheritance males and those descended
from males have the precedence, for the law explicitly gives the inheritance as
their due to the nearest of kin in the male line, when there are no children.
Well, it is we who answer this description; for Archiades is admitted to have
died without issue, and we are the nearest of kin to him in the male line.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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