[32]
For when
Leocrates died, and his funeral had taken place, and we went to take possession
of his property, since he had died without issue and unmarried, Leostratus here
ejected us, declaring that it belonged to him. Now his preventing us from
performing any of the proper rites for the deceased is perhaps to be excused,
seeing that he was his father, although the act was contrary to law; for it is
proper that the care of the funeral should be committed to the natural father,
but, next after him, also to us the members of the family to whom the deceased
was related by virtue of the adoption.
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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