On The Estate Of Pyrrhus
Isaeus
Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).
When our mother, the sister of Pyrrhus, claimed[*](She claimed as sister of Pyrrhus, not as mother of Endius, in which capacity she had no title.) the estate, the legal representative of the woman who was suing for the estate had the audacity to put in a protestation[*](For the meaning of διαμαρτυρία (protestation) see Isaeus 2, Introduction.) that the estate was not adjudicable to our mother, because Pyrrhus, to whom it originally belonged, had a legitimate daughter. We denounced his protestation and brought before you the man who had the audacity to make it;