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So far as you are concerned, Leostratus,
the family has become extinct; for you sought to maintain a relationship with
the property, not with those who adopted you. After the death of Leocrates, so
long as no one laid claim to the estate, you sought to get no one adopted as a
son to Archiades; but now that we have come forward as kinsmen, then you get one
adopted, that you may get possession of the property. And you declare that
Archiades, into whose house you were adopted, had no property, yet you file an
affidavit of objections against us, seeking to exclude his acknowledged kindred.
If there is nothing in the estate, wherein do you suffer loss, if we inherit
this nothing?
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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