This man Spudias
and I, men of the jury, are married to two sisters, daughters of Polyeuctus.
Polyeuctus having died without male issue, I am forced to go to law with the
defendant in regard to the property which has been left. And if, men of the
jury, I had not shown all zeal and eagerness in my desire to find a settlement
and to submit the matters at issue to our friends, I should have blamed myself
for not choosing to suffer a trifling loss rather than engage in a troublesome
lawsuit.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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