Scaife ATLAS

In Defence of Lycophron (frag_3a-frag_4)

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⋯ either the betrayal of dockyards, the burning of public buildings, or the seizure of the Acropolis ⋯

⋯ Euphemus ⋯ first ⋯ when the husband died ⋯ of Phlya ⋯ from him ⋯ that the woman ⋯ he had left his wife with child, which did not entail any breach of the law. But if their interpretation of this story tallied with that given by Ariston in the impeachment, they[*] should not surely have prevented the nearest relatives from ejecting Euphemus. They ought to have let them do so. Whereas now, by behaving as they did, they have by their own action furnished evidence that the charge against me is false. Besides, is it not strange that if anything had happened to the child at birth, or after, they would have adhered firmly to this will, in which ⋯

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