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How, now, could
people more effectively bring a house to extinction than if, being themselves of
another house, that of Stratius, they should dispossess those nearest of kin to
Hagnias? Or again, if one should claim to possess the estate of Hagnias as being
related by blood, when he bears a name that is not only not derived from the
family of Hagnias, but not even from that of Stratius, the claimant's own
ancestor—no, when he has not the name of any other of all the
descendants of Buselus, many as they are?
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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