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When our mother, the sister of Pyrrhus, claimed1 the estate, the legal representative of the woman who was suing for the estate had the audacity to put in a protestation2 that the estate was not adjudicable to our mother, because Pyrrhus, to whom it originally belonged, had a legitimate daughter. We denounced his protestation and brought before you the man who had the audacity to make it;
1 She claimed as sister of Pyrrhus, not as mother of Endius, in which capacity she had no title.
2 For the meaning of διαμαρτυρία （protestation） see Isaeus 2, Introduction.
Isaeus. Isaeus with an English translation by Edward Seymour Forster, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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