The Orations of Demosthenes

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ORATIONS OE DEMOSTHENES THE ORATION AGAINST MACARTATUS. THE ARGUMENT. Tills speech was delivered by Sositheus on behalf of his son Eubulidea, a minor, iu a suit brought to recover an estate from the defendant Macartatus. The estate in question was left by one Hagnias, who having died without children,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ORATIONS OE DEMOSTHENES THE ORATION AGAINST MACARTATUS. THE ARGUMENT. Tills speech was delivered by Sositheus on behalf of his son Eubulidea, a minor, iu a suit brought to recover an estate from the defendant Macartatus. The estate in question was left by one Hagnias, who having died without children, Phylomache, the daughter of bin first cousin Eubulides, claimed his inheritance as nearest of kin, and, being at the time married to Sositheus, prosecuted her clnim through her husband in the usual way before the Archon. Her title waa disputed by Glaucus and Glaucon, who claimed under an alleged will of Hagnius. A trial took place; the will was thought not to be genuine, and the estate was adjudged to Phylomache. After this however a new claim was prefeired by Theopompus, a second cousin of Hagnias, who seems to have founded his title upon two grounds. First he alleged, that Eubulides, the father of Phylomache, was first cousin to Hagnias by the half-blood only, his mother having been only half-sister to the father of Hagnias; and therefore he did not impede the descent to a second cousin by the whole blood. Secondly, he relied upon the law, cited iu this oration, which gave a preference to males and the issue of males; he himself being descended from the common ancestor (the great grandfather) purely through males, while Phylomache was obliged to trace her descent through a female, namely Phylomache, her grandmother. Iu answer to the latter argument it was urged, that the preference of males ouly applied when the parties traced their descent to the same common ancestor; and that Phylomache, who was first cousin once removed to Hagnias, was descended from his grandfather, whereas Theopompus was descended from his great grandfather, and was not entitled to inherit according...