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He assented, gentlemen; so in accordance with our agreement we both applied for an order of the court. The girl claimed by me happened to fall ill, and died; the other is still alive. Now Callias tried to bribe Leagrus into letting him have this second daughter.1 Directly I heard of it, I deposited a fee,2 and began by obtaining leave to proceed against Leagrus, to this effect: “If you will claim the girl for yourself, take her and good luck to you. If not, I will claim her myself.”3
1 Callias was actually claiming the girl on his son's behalf （Andoc. 1.121）; as her grandfather, he was forbidden by law to marry her himself.
2 The παράστασις was a fee of one drachmae, paid by anyone disputing the claim of a relative to an ἐπίκληρος.
3 If Leagrus stood aside, Andocides would have a prior claim to Callias' son in the eyes of the law.
Andocides. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes 1, Antiphon Andocides, with an English translation by K. J. Maidment, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1968.
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