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“Isocrates then married Plathane, the widow of the orator Hippias, a woman with three children, of whom he adopted, as aforesaid, Aphareus, who set up a bronze statue of him upon a pillar near the Olympieum, with the following inscription:

This image of his father Isocrates was dedicated to Zeus by Aphareus in honour of the Gods and the virtues of his parents.

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” Plutarch Lives of the Ten Orators [Isocrates]
Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2.

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