One of the Sons of Aristaechmus Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes (6)

that, when fourteen years have elapsed from the time when they gave my father a release, and twenty-two years after they had first indicted him,[*] when my father was now dead, with whom the settlement had been made and also the guardians who after his death had charge of our property, when their own mother, too, was dead, who was well-informed regarding all these matters, and the arbitrators, the witnesses, and almost everybody else, if I may so say, counting our inexperience and necessary ignorance a boon to themselves, they have instituted these suits against us, and have the audacity to make statements which are neither just nor reasonable.