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There was an interval of two years between the marriage of
the woman and their declaration that the divorce had taken place. She was
married in the archonship of Polyzelus, in the month of Scirophorion,1 and the divorce was
registered in the month of Poseidon,2 in the archonship of Timocrates. I, on my part, was
admitted to citizenship3
immediately after the marriage, laid my charges, and demanded an accounting;
and, finding that I was being robbed of all my property, instituted my suit
under the last-mentioned archon.
1 That is, in June 366.
2 That is, in December 364.
3 See note b, on Dem. 27.5, and Aristot. Ath. Pol. 42.2
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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