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[37] Besides, you have to consider that, even if a man had distributed among his sons what he had not acquired but inherited from his father, he would have reserved a goodly share for himself1; for everyone would rather be courted by his children as a man of means than beg of them as a needy person.

1 Still more would this be the case if, like Conon's, his wealth had been acquired by his public services.

Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.

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