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δόντος κ. ἐπισκήψαντος By your father's special grant and injunction. πρὸς μέρος ‘Share and share alike.’ § 8, ἀντιμοιρεὶ νέμειν, νέμεσθαι. On παίδων...Φορμιωνι see note on τὸ τέταρτον μέρος infr. οὐκ ἦσαν...κληρονόμοι The proposition is categorically, not conditionally stated, ‘then the children were not heirs; and if they were not heirs, then they had no share in the property.’ The right of inheritance was confined to the children born ἐξ ἀστῆς καὶ ἐγγυητῆς γυναικός, Isae. 6 § 47; 8 § 19; 12 § 9. Dem. Or. 57 § 53 ἐξῆν τούτοις (τοῖς συγγενέσι) εἰ νόθος ἢ ξένος ἦν ἐγὼ, κληρονόμοις εἶναι τῶν ἐμῶν πἀντων. Arist. Aves, 1640—73. (Hermann-Blumner Privatalt. p. 253, and Thalheim Rechtsalt. p. 7; Att. Process, ed. Lipsius, p. 501.) On the two senses of κληρονόμος, ‘the heir in possession’ and ‘the heir apparent,’ see Wyse on Isaeus § 44. τὸ τέταρτον μέρος The property is divided into four parts, one of which is taken by Apollodorus, another by his brother Pasicles. The other two go to the children of the second marriage, who must have been two in number. ἀφεῖναι τῶν ἐγκλ.] § 3 ἀφεθεὶς, § 25 ἀφεὶς κ. ἀπαλλάξας, n.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part II. J. E. Sandys, Litt. D., and F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D. 1910. Cambridge University Press.
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