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In the case
of Polyeuctus of Cydantidae,1 when the people instructed the council
to inquire whether he was accompanying the exiles to Megara and to report back after the
investigation, it reported that he was doing so. You chose accusers as the law
prescribes: Polyeuctus came into court and you acquitted him, on his admitting
that he was going to Megara to
Nicophanes who, he said, was married to his mother. So you did not consider that
he was doing anything strange or reprehensible in keeping in touch with his
mother's husband who was in difficulties, or in assisting him, so far as he
could, while he was banished from the country.
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