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You have heard
the oath and the accepted rites handed down by our fathers, as far as it is
permitted to speak of them, and how this woman, whom Stephanus betrothed to
Theogenes when the latter was king, as his own daughter, performed these rites,
and administered the oath to the venerable priestesses; and you know that even
the women who behold these rites are not permitted to speak of them to anyone
else. Let me now bring before you a piece of evidence which was, to be sure,
given in secret, but which I shall show by the facts themselves to be clear and
true.
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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