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Now I will inform you, in the first place, of the way in which they1 became connected with us. Conon, who was in command of operations around the Peloponnese,2 and who had formed a friendship long before with my father when he equipped a warship, requested him to bestow my sister on her suitor, the son of Nicophemus.

1 The family of Aristophanes.

2 393 B.C., when he succeeded in reestablishing some strongholds of the Athenians on the coasts of Laconia.

Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.

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