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that whereas the people of Oreus, who
inhabit only a fourth part of Euboea,
dealing with this very Charidemus, whose mother belongs to their
city,—I will not mention who his father is or where he comes from, for
it is not worth while to make unnecessary inquiries about the man,—so
that he himself contributed one-half of the birth-qualification, have never to
this day thought fit to make up the other moiety, and to this very day he is on
the bastards' list, just as here bastards are registered at
Cynosarges,—
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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