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For suppose one should ask, men of the
jury, Who is the person who disputes this boy's title to the estate of Hagnias?
I know well that he would say, Macartatus. Born of what father? Theopompus. And
of what mother? Apolexis, daughter of a Prospaltian,1 and
sister of Macartatus, also a Prospaltian. And who was the father of Theopompus?
Charidemus. And of whom was Charidemus the son? Of Stratius. And of whom
Stratius? Of Buselus. This, men of the jury, is the branch of Stratius, one of
the sons of Buselus; and these whose names you have heard are descendants of
Stratius; and among them there is not one single name of those belonging to the
branch of Hagnias, or even one that is similar.
1 Prospalta was a deme of the tribe Acamantis.
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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