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[9] When Archedamus had been reduced from affluence to embarrassment, Apollodorus helped him to look after his affairs, sharing his own money with him. Again, when he was on the point of starting for Corinth on military service,1 he made a will in case anything happened to him and devised his property to Archedamus's daughter, his own sister and my mother, providing for her marriage with Lacratides, who has now become hierophant.2 Such was his conduct towards us who had originally saved him from ruin.

1 Athenian troops were engaged in the region of Corinth from 394 to 390 B.C.

2 The official who displayed the sacred emblems at the Eleusinian mysteries; he was a member of the house of the Eumolpidae.

Isaeus. Isaeus with an English translation by Edward Seymour Forster, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.

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