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

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[21] τῇ μὲν γὰρ Εὐβουλίδου θυγατρὶ καὶ τῇ Ἁγνίου μητρὶ πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀγωνιζομέναις, μὴ κατὰ ταὐτὸ ἀμφισβητούσαις, ἐνῆν ποιήσασθαι συνθήκας, ἂν ἡ ἑτέρα νικᾷ, μετεῖναί τι καὶ τῇ ἡττηθείσῃ· καδίσκος γὰρ ἔμελλεν ἑκατέρᾳ τεθήσεσθαι. τὸ δʼ ἡμέτερον οὐ τοιοῦτον ἦν, ἀλλʼ ἓν τὸ γένος, δύο δὲ λήξεις, ἡμικληρίου ἑκατέρῳ· τοῖς δὲ κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἀμφισβητοῦσιν εἷς τίθεται καδίσκος, οὗ οὐκ ἂν ἦν τὸν μὲν ἡττᾶσθαι τὸν δὲ νικᾶν,¹ ἀλλʼ ὁμοίως ἀμφοτέροις ἦν ὁ αὐτὸς κίνδυνος, ὥστʼ οὐκ ἐνῆν κοινωνίαν οὐδὲ διομολογίαν ποιήσασθαι περὶ αὐτῶν.

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

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Περὶ τοῦ Ἁγνίου 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 Hagnias Perseus (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).) — 21 focus

[21] The daughter of Eubulides and the mother of Hagnias, in an action against me, since they were not claiming on the same grounds, might have made an agreement, that if one of them were successful, she should give a share to the defeated claimant; for the votes accorded to each of them would be placed in different urns. But with us it was quite otherwise; we stood in the same relationship and were making two separate claims, each to have half the estate; and when two claimants found their claims on the same grounds, only one voting urn is employed, so that it would be impossible for one to be unsuccessful and the other successful, but we both ran the same risk, so we could not possibly have made any compact or agreement about the inheritance.

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On the Estate of Hagnias

1. ἡττᾶσθαι τὸν δὲ νικᾶνValckenaer: νικᾶσθαι τὸν δὲ ἡττᾶν.

Isaeus On the Estate of Hagnias 21

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