20. I do not know why you should feel differently about him from his
relatives. For (their feelings) are such that if he had done no other
wrong, it would be right to refuse him the examination on account of them
alone. I will pass over the accusations which his mother made during her
life. It is easy for you to infer from what she did at the close of her
life, how her son conducted himself towards her. 21. For she did not dare
trust herself to him at death, but gave to Antiphanes who was not a
relative, but whom she trusted, three minae of silver for her burial,
disregarding her own son. So is it not evident that she knew well that he
would not do his duty even to a relative? 22. Then if a mother, who
naturally endures the wrongs put upon her by her children and thinks she
has great returns from them even if they render only a slight service,
because she judges what happens rather by her natural mother-love than by
any cold-blooded standard, (if she then) thought her son would rob her at
death, what should be your judgment about him? 23. For what would a man
do to those who were not connected with him if lie commits such offenses
against his own relatives? That this is true, hear the man who took the
silver and buried her.