Isaeus, On The Estate of Ciron, ed. Edward Seymour Forster, 1

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[1] ἐπὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις, ὦ ἄνδρες, ἀνάγκη ἐστὶ χαλεπῶς φέρειν, ὅταν τινὲς μὴ μόνον τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἀμφισβητεῖν τολμῶσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῶν νόμων δίκαια τοῖς σφετέροις αὐτῶν λόγοις ἀφανιεῖν¹ ἐλπίζωσιν· ὅπερ καὶ νῦν οὗτοι ποιεῖν ἐγχειροῦσι. τοῦ γὰρ ἡμετέρου πάππου Κίρωνος οὐκ ἄπαιδος τελευτήσαντος, ἀλλʼ ἡμᾶς ἐκ θυγατρὸς αὑτοῦ γνησίας παῖδας αὑτῷ καταλελοιπότος, οὗτοί τοῦ τε² κλήρου λαγχάνουσιν ὡς ἐγγυτάτω γένους ὄντες, ἡμᾶς τε ὑβρίζουσιν ὡς οὐκ ἐξ ἐκείνου θυγατρὸς ὄντας, οὐδὲ³ γενομένης αὐτῷ πώποτε τὸ παράπαν.

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

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Περὶ τοῦ Κίρωνος 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 Ciron Perseus (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).) — 1 focus

[1] It is impossible, gentlemen, not to feel indignation against men who not only have the impudence to claim the property of others but also hope by their arguments to abolish the rights which the laws confer; and this is what our opponents are now trying to do. For, though our grandfather Ciron did not die childless but has left us behind him, the sons of his legitimate daughter, yet our opponents claim the estate as next-of-kin and insult us by alleging that we are not the issue of his daughter, and indeed that he never had a daughter at all.

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On The Estate of Ciron

1. ἀφανιεῖνBaiter: ἀφανίζειν.

2. τοῦ τεReiske: τε τοῦ.

3. οὐδὲReiske: οὔτε.

Isaeus On The Estate of Ciron 1

ed. Edward Seymour Forster

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