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But I let pass the barbarian examples, since he has
offered us plenty enough in the Grecian affairs. He says,
that the Athenians and most other Ionians were so ashamed
of that name that they wholly refused to be called Ionians;
and that those who esteemed themselves the noblest among
them, and who had set forth from the very Prytaneum of
Athens, begat children on barbarian wives whose parents,
husbands, and former children they had slain; that the
women had therefore made a law among themselves, confirmed it by oath, and delivered it to be kept by their
daughters, never to eat with their husbands, nor to call
any of them by his name; and that the present Milesians
are descended from these women. Having afterwards
added that those are true Ionians who celebrate the feast
called Apaturia; they all, says he, keep it except the
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Ephesians and Colophonians.1 In this manner does he
deprive these two states of their nobility.
1 Herod. I. 143-148.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 4.
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