This text is part of:
[83]
Consider, men of
the jury, that this boy is set before you as though he were the suppliant's
wand, on behalf of the deceased Hagnias and Eubulides and the other descendants
of Hagnias, and that they supplicate you jurymen not to allow their house to be
brought to extinction by these loathsome monsters, who are of the house of
Stratius, and never belonged to that of Hagnias. Do not suffer them to keep what
is not their own, but compel them to give it back into the house of Hagnias for
those who are his relatives.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.