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While we were thus occupied, this fellow Olympiodorus suddenly flung
at me the statement that his mother also was related to Comon, the dead man, and
that it was fair that he, too, should receive his share of all the property
which Comon left. I for my part, men of the jury, as I knew that he was lying
and trying to put a bold face on it, and that there was nobody else nearer of
kin to Comon than myself, became at first exceedingly wroth and indignant at the
shamelessness of his claim; presently, however, I reflected that it was not a
proper time for anger, and I made answer to him, that for the present it was our
duty to bury the dead man and do all else that custom called for, and that after
we should have discharged all these duties we would talk with one another.
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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