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More than this, the clansmen and the demesmen of her relatives have given this
testimony. Of what, then, could you have further need? Yet again, that my father
married my mother according to the laws, and that he gave a marriage-feast to
the members of the clan, has been proved by testimony. And besides all this, I
have shown that I myself have shared in all the privileges which befit free men.
On all grounds, therefore, you will act in accordance with your oaths, if you
give your verdict in my favour as justice and right demand.
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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