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Ah, you may say, but that name was given
you by way of derision or insult. No; very often, during the time when my father
refused to acknowledge them, these men used to say that the kinsfolk of the
defendant's mother were quite as good as those of my father. Boeotus is the name
of his mother's brother; and when my father was compelled to bring them into the
clan, when I had already been introduced as Mantitheus, he introduced the
defendant as Boeotus, and his brother as Pamphilus. For I challenge you to show
me any Athenian who ever gave the same name to two of his sons. If you can, I
will grant that my father gave you this name by way of insult.
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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