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And would he have begrudged him
the banking business, in which he might have given him a share without disgrace,
and yet have given him his wife, a bequest disgraceful above all others? Yes,
after receiving from you the gift of citizenship, he gave his wife （if
indeed he gave her） as a slave giving to his master, and not, on the
contrary, as a master to a slave, and he added such a dowry as no man in Athens
was ever known to give.1
1 The mother of Demosthenes brought to her husband a dowry of only 80 minae （Dem. 27.5）; the mother of Mantitheus one of 60 minae （Dem. 40.6）; and the two daughters of Polyeuctus dowries of 40 minae each （Dem. 41.3 and Dem. 41.27）.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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