Isaeus, On the Estate of Dicaeogenes, Edward Seymour Forster (Translator), 29

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[29] Now, gentlemen, we in court, when we obliged him to renounce this property, let him off the payment of the revenue he had received from it in consideration of the public services which he had performed¹ and the expenses which he had incurred on the buildings, in accordance with the decision of the judges and subsequently, under no compulsion but of our own free will, in consideration of the repairs which he had carried out, gave him as a special gift, in addition to his third share of the estate, the town-house which he sold to Philonicus for 5000 drachmae.

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

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

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Περὶ τοῦ Δικαιογένους κλήρου Perseus (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).) — 29 focus

[29] ἡμεῖς δέ, ὦ ἄνδρες, ἐπὶ τοῦ δικαστηρίου, ὅτε ἠναγκάζομεν αὐτὸν ἀφίστασθαι τούτων, ἀντὶ τῶν λῃτουργιῶν καὶ τῶν εἰς τὰ οἰκοδομήματα ἀνηλωμένων¹ ἀφεῖμεν αὐτῷ τοὺς καρπούς, οὕτω τῶν δικαστῶν γιγνωσκόντων· ὕστερον δʼ οὐκ ἀναγκαζόμενοι ἀλλʼ ἑκόντες ἔδομεν αὐτῷ τὴν ἐν ἄστει οἰκίαν ἐξαίρετον προσθέντες² τῷ τρίτῳ μέρει τοῦ κλήρου ἔχειν ἀντὶ τῶν ἐπεσκευασμένων, ἣν οὗτος³ ἀντὶ πεντακισχιλίων δραχμῶν παρέδωκε Φιλονείκῳ.

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On the Estate of Dicaeogenes

1. Apparently during the period when Dicaeogenes III. held the whole estate, his fortune was such that he was obliged to undertake public burdens to which he otherwise would not have been liable.

Isaeus On the Estate of Dicaeogenes 29

Edward Seymour Forster (Translator)

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