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These female relatives the law commanded to be present at the laying out of
the deceased, and to follow to the tomb, not the mother of Macartatus nor the
wife of Theopompus; for she was in no way related to Hagnias, but was of another
tribe, the Acamantis, and of another deme, that of Prospalta, so that she was
not even apprised in any way at the time Hagnias lay dead.
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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