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[47] Again, the estate of Nicias was expected to be not less than a hundred talents,— most of it in his house; but when Niceratus1 was dying, he said that he in his turn was not leaving any silver or gold, and the property that he left to his son is worth no more than fourteen talents.

1 Son of Nicias; cf. Lys. 18, On the Confession of the Property of the brother of Nicias.

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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