Isaeus, On The Estate of Apollodorus, ed. Edward Seymour Forster, 31

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[31] ἐκείνῳ δὲ πρόδηλον ἦν ὅτι εἰ καταλείψει τὸν κλῆρον ἐπὶ τούτοις, ἔρημον ποιήσει τὸν οἶκον, τί προορῶντι; ταύτας τὰς ἀδελφὰς τὸν μὲν Ἀπολλοδώρου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ κλῆρον ἐχούσας, ἐκείνῳ δʼ οὐκ εἰσποιούσας ὄντων αὐταῖς παίδων, καὶ τοὺς μὲν ἄνδρας αὐτῶν τὴν γῆν, ἣν ἐκεῖνος κατέλιπε, καὶ τὰ κτήματα πέντε ταλάντων πεπρακότας καὶ τὸ ἀργύριον διανειμαμένους, τὸν δὲ οἶκον αἰσχρῶς οὕτω καὶ δεινῶς ἐξηρημωμένον.

On The Estate of Apollodorus. Isaeus. ed. Edward Seymour Forster. Cambridge, MA. 1962.

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Περὶ τοῦ Απολλοδώρου 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 Apollodorus Perseus (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).) — 31 focus

[31] Now it was quite clear to Apollodorus that, if he left his estate in the hands of my opponents, he would be securing the extinction of his house. For what did he see before his eyes? He saw that these sisters of Apollodorus (II.) inherited their brother's estate, but never gave him a son by adoption, though they had sons of their own, and that their husbands had sold the landed property which he left behind him and his possessions for five talents and divided up the proceeds, but that his house had been left shamefully and deplorably desolate. Knowing that their brother had been treated thus, could he himself have ever expected, even if there had been friendship between him and them, to receive the customary rites from them, being only their cousin and not their brother?

Isaeus On The Estate of Apollodorus 31

ed. Edward Seymour Forster

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