When the husbands of two of the sisters tried to obtain possession of their fortune, he imprisoned the husband of the eldest of them by walling him upThe reading οἰκοδομήσας is supported by Hippocration, s.v. (i.q.κατακλεῖν εἰς οἴκημα), but the meaning is uncertain. Possibly Diocles forcibly detained his brother-in-law from performing some duty to the state and thus caused his disenfranchisement. and by a plot deprived him of his civic rights, and though he was indicted for outrage he has not yet been punished. As for the husband of the next sister, he ordered a slave to kill him and smuggled away the murderer, and then threw the guilt upon his sister,

and having terrified her by his abominable conduct he has robbed her son, whose guardian he became, of his property, and is still in possession of his land and has only given him some stony ground. To prove that what I say is true, his victims, though they are afraid of him, yet may perhaps be willing to support me by their evidence; otherwise, I will produce as witnesses those who know the facts. Please call them first.