Isaeus, On the Estate of Menecles, Edward Seymour Forster (Translator), 34

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[34] Please read these depositions; and, you, turn off the water-clock.¹

Evidence

Now, please, take these depositions to the effect that the land was sold for seventy minae and that the orphan received sixty-seven minae from the proceeds.

On the Estate of Menecles. Isaeus. Edward Seymour Forster (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1962.

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On the Estate of Menecles (English) (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).)

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Περὶ τοῦ Μενεκλέους κλήρου Perseus (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).) — 34 focus

[34] καί μοι τὰς μαρτυρίας ἀνάγνωθι ταυτασί· σὺ δʼ ἐπίλαβε¹ τὸ ὕδωρ.

Μαρτυρίαι

λαβὲ δή μοι τὰς μαρτυρίας ἐκείνας, ὡς τό τε χωρίον ἑβδομήκοντα μνῶν ἐπράθη, καὶ ὡς ἀπέλαβεν ὁ ὀρφανὸς ἑπτὰ καὶ ἐξήκοντα μνᾶς πραθέντος τοῦ χωρίου.

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On the Estate of Menecles

1. The length of the speeches was regulated by means of a water-clock, which was turned off during the reading of laws and depositions.

Isaeus On the Estate of Menecles 34

Edward Seymour Forster (Translator)

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