Isaeus, On the Estate of Dicaeogenes, ed. Edward Seymour Forster, 21

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[21] ἐπεί, ὦ ἄνδρες, εἰ Δικαιογένης ἀληθῆ λέγει, τί ἡμεῖς ὠφελούμεθα νικήσαντες, ἢ τί οὗτος ἐζημιώθη ἡττηθείς; εἰ γὰρ ἀπέστη μόνον (ὥς φησι) τοῖν δυοῖν μεροῖν τοῦ κλήρου, ἀναμφισβήτητα¹ δὲ μὴ ὡμολόγει παραδώσειν, τί ἐζημιοῦτο ἀφιστάμενος ὧν τιμὴν εἶχεν; οὐδὲ γὰρ πρὶν ἡττηθῆναι τὴν δίκην εἶχεν ὧν ἡμεῖς δικαζόμεθα, ἀλλʼ οἱ παρὰ τούτου πριάμενοι καὶ θέμενοι, οἷς ἔδει αὐτὸν ἀποδόντα τὴν τιμὴν ἡμῖν τὰ μέρη ἀποδοῦναι.

On the Estate of Dicaeogenes. Isaeus. ed. Edward Seymour Forster. Cambridge, MA. 1962.

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

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On the Estate of Dicaeogenes Perseus (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).) — 21 focus

[21] For, gentlemen, if Dicaeogenes (III.) is speaking the truth, what advantage was it to us to have won our case, and what disadvantage was it to my opponent to be defeated? For if he simply renounced, as he alleges, his claim to the two-thirds of the estate but did not agree to hand it over without further dispute, what did he lose by renouncing property, the value of which he was still holding? For even before he lost his case, the property which we are claiming was not in his possession but in the hands of those who bought it from him or held it on mortgage, whom he ought to have paid off and then given us our share.

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On the Estate of Dicaeogenes

1. ἀναμφισβήτηταSchoemann: -ον.

Isaeus On the Estate of Dicaeogenes 21

ed. Edward Seymour Forster

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