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When our mother, the sister of Pyrrhus, claimedShe claimed as sister of Pyrrhus, not as mother of Endius, in which capacity she had no title. the estate, the legal representative of the woman who was suing for the estate had the audacity to put in a protestationFor the meaning of διαμαρτυρία (protestation) see Isaeus 2, Introduction. that the estate was not adjudicable to our mother, because Pyrrhus, to whom it originally belonged, had a legitimate daughter. We denounced his protestation and brought before you the man who had the audacity to make it;
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and, having clearly convicted him of having given false evidence, we obtained from you a verdict for perjury against him. At the same time we convicted Nicodemus, the present defendant, before the same judges, of the most shameless lying in the evidence which he then gave, since he had the impudence to bear witness that he had given his sister in marriage to our uncle in the proper legal manner.
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That in the former trial Nicodemus's evidence was recognized as being false, the condemnation of the witnessi.e., Xenocles. on that occasion most clearly proves. For if the present defendant had not been recognized as having given false evidence, the other witness would have been acquitted in the suit about the protestation, and the woman whom the protestation affirmed to be my uncle's legitimate daughter would have been established as his heiress instead of our mother.
