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Besides all
this, men of the jury, there is strong evidence from which it is easy to see
that the woman in reality continued to live with Aphobus and even up to the
present day has not separated from him. In fact, this woman, before she came to
Aphobus, was not unwedded for one single day, but left her living husband,
Timocrates, to come and live with Aphobus; and now during the space of three
years she has manifestly married no one else. Can anyone believe that she then
went directly from husband to husband, in order to avoid living as a widow, but
that now, supposing she has really left her husband, she would have endured to
remain a widow for so long when she might have married someone else, seeing that
her brother possessed so large a fortune, and she herself was so young?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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