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And he does not suffer anyone to become
an Athenian in the later period, unless he be made such at the time and be
approved by the court, for fear that numbers of people, by claiming to be
Plataeans, might acquire for themselves the right of citizenship. And
furthermore, he defined at once in the decree the rule applying to the Plataeans
in the interest of the city and of the gods, declaring that it should not be
permitted to any of them to be drawn by lot for the office of the nine archons
or for any priesthood, but that their descendants might be so drawn, if they
were born from mothers who were of Attic birth and were betrothed according to
the law.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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