Lysias On The Property Of Eraton: Against the Treasury 5

[5] but now let me tell you how I have treated you, ¹ as distinct from private persons, in the conduct of this dispute. As long as the relatives of Erasiphon were contesting this property, I claimed the whole as mine, because Erasistratus lost his case when he pleaded against my father’s suit for the whole debt; and for the last three years I have let out the property at Sphettus, ² but over the property at Cicynna ³ and the house there I was at law with the occupiers. Last year, however, they got my suit quashed by alleging that they were sea-traders ⁴ ; but at present, although I was permitted to bring proceedings in the month of Gamelion, ⁵ the nautical court has not decided the case.