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For what are we to do, men of the
jury? When the adoption has been continued through three persons, and the one
last left in the family has died without issue, are we not at the last to
recover what is our own? Well then, having this just claim, we brought suit for
the inheritance before the archon. But this fellow Leochares here, having
lightly sworn a false affidavit, thinks that he has the right to rob us of the
inheritance in defiance of all the laws.
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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