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I, if you leave me in the lurch, which I pray may not
happen, shall have no means of giving a dowry to my daughter, whose own father I
am, although, if you see her size, you would deem she was not my daughter but my
sister1; but these men, if you come to my aid, will pay
nothing out of their own property, but will restore to me what is my own from
the house which by common agreement we reserved for the settlement of the
marriage-portion, but in which these men have been living by themselves.
1 See above, Dem. 40.12.
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