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On my answering them, “Both,” they said to me,
“Very well, we will interpret for you the law, and also give you
advice to your profit. In the first place, if there be anyone related to the
woman, let him carry a spear when she is borne forth to the tomb and make solemn
proclamation at the tomb, and thereafter let him guard the tomb for the space of
three days. And this is the advice which we give you: since you were not
yourself present, but only your wife and your children, and since you have no
other witnesses, we advise you not to make proclamation against anyone by name,
but in general against the perpetrators and the murderers;
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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