[63]
The law does
not allow any woman except female relatives within the degree of cousinship to
enter the chamber where the deceased lies, and it permits these same women to
follow to the tomb. Now Phylomachê, the sister of Polemon, the father
of Hagnias, was not cousin to Hagnias, but aunt; for she was sister to Polemon,
the father of Hagnias. But Eubulides, the son of this woman, was cousin on his
father's side to Hagnias, whose inheritance is in question. And the mother of
this boy here was the daughter of Eubulides.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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