Isaeus, Menecles, section 34

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On The Estate of Cleonymus

On The Estate Of Pyrrhus

On the Estate of Nicostratus

On the Estate of Dicaeogenes

On the Estate of Philoctemon

On The Estate of Apollodorus

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On the Estate of Astyphilus

On The Estate Of Aristarchus

On the Estate of Hagnias

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[34] Please read these depositions; and, you, turn off the water-clock.¹“Evidence”

Now, please, take these depositions to the effect that the land was sold for seventy minae and that the orphan received sixty-seven minae from the proceeds.“Evidence”

1 The length of the speeches was regulated by means of a water-clock, which was turned off during the reading of laws and depositions.

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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