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with whomsoever they please, except1 daughter and mother and
their direct descendants and ascendants, and likewise the women, save with
son and father, and so on, first admonishing them preferably not even to
bring to light2 anything whatever thus conceived, but if
they are unable to prevent a birth to dispose of it on the understanding
that we cannot rear such an offspring.” “All that sounds
reasonable,” he said; “but how are they to distinguish
one another's fathers and daughters,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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