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We are not depriving Leostratus of
any property （ for these men hold what is their own） , but we
claim the estate left by Archiades, which is ours according to the laws. For the
law, men of the jury, ordains that males and the sons of males should have
precedence; and such we are. Archiades had no children, and we are the ones
nearest of kin to him.
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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