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With regard to
my father, then, these are the grounds for my assertion that he was an Athenian;
and I have brought forward as witnesses persons whom my opponents themselves
have voted to be citizens, and who depose that my father was their own cousin.
It is shown that he lived such and such a number of years here in Attica and that he was never in any place
brought under scrutiny as being an alien, but that he found a refuge with these
persons as his relatives, and that they both received him and gave him a share
of their property as being one of themselves.
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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