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but now let me tell you how I have treated you,1 as distinct from private persons, in the conduct of this dispute. As long as the relatives of Erasiphon were contesting this property, I claimed the whole as mine, because Erasistratus lost his case when he pleaded against my father's suit for the whole debt; and for the last three years I have let out the property at Sphettus,2 but over the property at Cicynna3 and the house there I was at law with the occupiers. Last year, however, they got my suit quashed by alleging that they were sea-traders4; but at present, although I was permitted to bring proceedings in the month of Gamelion,5 the nautical court has not decided the case.
Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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