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You have heard,
then, of my father's being taken prisoner by the enemy and of the good fortune
which brought him back here. To prove now that he was your fellow-citizen, men
of the jury （for this you may depend upon as being the veritable
truth）, I will call as witnesses those of my relatives on my father's
side who are still living.Call first, please,
Thucritides and Charisiades; for their father Charisius was brother to my
grandfather Thucritides and my grandmother Lysaretê, and uncle to my
father （for my father had married his sister born of a different
mother）.1
1 Such marriages were permissible under Athenian law.
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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