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Witnesses That the property of Eraton should of right be ours is easily understood from these statements, but that the whole is being confiscated appears from the actual inventories; for these have been compiled in detail by three and even four persons. Surely it is obvious to everyone that they would not have omitted any other property of Eraton’s available for confiscation, when they were entering all the property of Eraton, including even the part that has belonged to me for a long time past. Well, that it is not possible for us to recover anything even from the other side, once you have confiscated this property, I consider obvious;
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but now let me tell you how I have treated you,The jury are addressed as representing the State. as distinct from private persons, in the conduct of this dispute. As long as the relatives of Erasiphon were contesting this property, I claimed the whole as mine, because Erasistratus lost his case when he pleaded against my father’s suit for the whole debt; and for the last three years I have let out the property at Sphettus,A township of the tribe Acamantis in the south of Attica. but over the property at CicynnaA township of the tribe Acamantis in the south of Attica. and the house there I was at law with the occupiers. Last year, however, they got my suit quashed by alleging that they were sea-tradersAs such they could only be tried before a nautical court.; but at present, although I was permitted to bring proceedings in the month of Gamelion,December-January. the nautical court has not decided the case.
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Now that you have seen fit to confiscate the property of Erasiphon, I relinquish two thirds to the State, and claim that the property of Erasistratus be adjudged to me, because it is this property that your previous decision has already made ours. So I have limited my share to one-third of their property, making no exact calculation, but leaving much more than two-thirds to the Treasury.
