<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0017.tlg006.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0017.tlg006.perseus-eng2" n="46"><p rend="align(indent)">Further, mark the effrontery and impudence of the witness himself, who has claimed for himself Euctemon's daughter<note resp="Loeb" anchored="true">Namely, the widow of Chaeres, cf. <bibl n="Isaeus 6.51">Isaeus 6.51</bibl>.</note> as being an heiress and a fifth part<note resp="Loeb" anchored="true">The words <foreign xml:lang="grc">πέμπτου μέρους</foreign> are certainly corrupt: there is no reason in law why a fifth part should have been claimed. No satisfactory emendation has been proposed.</note> of Euctemon's estate as being adjudicable, while he has given evidence that Euctemon has a legitimate son. In doing so does he not clearly convict himself of having given false evidence? For obviously, if Euctemon had a legitimate son, his daughter could not be heiress or the estate adjudicable. To prove, then, that he made these claims, the clerk shall read you the depositions. </p></div></div></body></text></TEI>