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My brother having died last year, Phile, ignoring the existence of the last tenant, came forward, claiming to be the legitimate daughter of our uncle, and Xenocles of Coprus,A deme belonging to the tribe of Hippothontis. A scholiast on Aristoph. Kn. 899, states that it was an island off Attica. as her legal representative, demanded to be given possession of the estate of Pyrrhus, who had died more than twenty years before, having fixed the value of the estate at three talents.
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When our mother, the sister of Pyrrhus, claimedShe claimed as sister of Pyrrhus, not as mother of Endius, in which capacity she had no title. the estate, the legal representative of the woman who was suing for the estate had the audacity to put in a protestationFor the meaning of διαμαρτυρία (protestation) see Isaeus 2, Introduction. that the estate was not adjudicable to our mother, because Pyrrhus, to whom it originally belonged, had a legitimate daughter. We denounced his protestation and brought before you the man who had the audacity to make it;
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and, having clearly convicted him of having given false evidence, we obtained from you a verdict for perjury against him. At the same time we convicted Nicodemus, the present defendant, before the same judges, of the most shameless lying in the evidence which he then gave, since he had the impudence to bear witness that he had given his sister in marriage to our uncle in the proper legal manner.
