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Among those who from first to last held this opinion
were Timocrates and Onetor. Of this I can give you the strongest of proofs. For
the defendant wished to give his sister in marriage to Aphobus, seeing that he
had got into his hands his own patrimony and mine （which was not
inconsiderable） as well; but he had not confidence enough in him to
abandon her marriage-portion. It was as if he felt, forsooth, that the property
of guardians was a security for their wards.1 He did, however, give him his sister, but the portion,
Timocrates, who had been her former husband, agreed to keep as a loan with
interest at the rate of five obols.2
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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