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and
the other degrees of kin that you have just mentioned?”
“They won't,” said I, “except that a man will
call all male offspring born in the tenth and in the seventh month after he
became a bridegroom his sons, and all female, daughters, and they will call
him father.1 And, similarly, he will call their offspring
his grandchildren2 and they will call his group
grandfathers and grandmothers. And all children born in the period in which
their fathers and mothers were procreating will regard one another as
brothers and sisters.
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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