On The Estate Of Pyrrhus

Isaeus

Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).

That he married her and took her to be his wife as the daughter of a mistress, has been proved and attested and that this evidence is true, Xenocles himself has testified by his conduct over a long period. For it is evident that, if he had not received the woman in marriage from Endius as the daughter of a mistress, seeing that he had children by her who have already reached a certain age,[*](Xenocles and Phile had been married eight years (Isaeus 3.31).) he would have claimed her patrimony on behalf of the legitimate daughter from Endius during his lifetime,