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But to continue; let me next prove to you that I have a better right than my opponent to Ciron's fortune. I suppose that you admit in principle as a self-evident fact that those who are descended from the same stock as Ciron are not nearer in right of succession than those who are descended from him. （How, indeed, could they be, since the former are called collateral kinsmen, the latter lineal descendants of the deceased?） Since, however, even though this is so, they have the impudence to dispute my right, we will explain the point in greater detail from the actual laws.
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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