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And furthermore, we are also his nearest
of kin in the female line; for Meidylides was the brother of Archiades, and the
daughter of Meidylides was the mother of my father, so that Archiades, for whose
inheritance we are now prosecuting our claim, is uncle （ their fathers
having been brothers） to the mother of my father, having this
relationship in the male line, not in the female line. But Leostratus here is in
kinship further removed, and is related to Archiades on the female side; for the
mother of Leocrates, the father of the defendant, was niece to the Archiades in
question and to Meidylides, as descendants of whom we claim the right to win the
inheritance.
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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