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These men came together in the temple, and
after hearing the facts from both parties and from the woman herself gave their
decision, and these men acceded to it. The terms were: that the woman should be
free and her own mistress, but that she should give back to Phrynion all that
she had taken with her from his house except the clothing and the jewels and the
maid-servants; for these had been bought for the use of the woman herself; and
that she should live with each of the men on alternate days, and if they should
mutually agree upon any other arrangement, that arrangement should be binding;
that she should be maintained by the one who for the time had her in his
keeping; and that for the future the men should be friends with one another and
bear no malice.
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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