[2] Their own friends and relatives concede our right to an equal share with them in the undisputed property which Cleonymus left behind him; but our opponents have become so impudent that they are seeking to deprive us even of our patrimony—not because they are ignorant, gentlemen, of what is just, but because they are convinced of our utter helplessness.
On The Estate of Cleonymus. Isaeus. Edward Seymour Forster (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1962.
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