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Now it is plain, men of
Athens, that it was not my
father who first received my mother in marriage. No; it was Protomachus,and he
had by her a son, and a daughter whom he gave in marriage. And he, even though
dead, bears testimony by what he did that my mother was an Athenian and of civic
birth.To prove that these statements of mine
are true, call first, please, the sons of Protomachus, and next the witnesses
who were present when my mother was betrothed to my father, and from the members
of the clan the kinsfolk to whom my father gave the marriage-feast in honor of
my mother. After them call Eunicus of Cholargus,1 who received my sister in
marriage from Protomachus, and then my sister's son. Call them.“
Witnesses
”
1 Cholargus, a deme of the tribe Acamantis.
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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