Demades, On the Twelve Years, section 37

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The daughters of Erechtheus,¹ by nobility of virtue, triumphed over the woman's weakness in their hearts the frailty of their nature was made virile by devotion to the soil that reared them.

1 For the story of the daughters of Erechtheus see Lyc. 98 and note.

Demades. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.

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