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they are not doing this at this time because I have induced them to do so; on
the contrary, when I was a child they at once took me to the clansmen, they took
me to the temple of Apollo our ancestral god, and to the other sacred places.
And yet I presume that as a child I did not induce these men to do this by
giving them money. No; my father himself, while he still lived, swore the
customary oath and introduced me to the clansmen, knowing that I was an
Athenian, born of an Athenian mother, lawfully betrothed to himself; and these
facts have been established by testimony.
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