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Furthermore, if there were any truth in
all this, do you suppose that Aphobus would not have taken my mother to wife,
bequeathed to him as she was by my father? He had already taken her
marriage-portion—the eighty minae—as though he were going to
marry her; but he subsequently married the daughter of Philonides of Melite,
from motives of avarice, in order that, in addition to what he had received from
us, he might get from him other eighty minae. But, if there had been four
talents in the house, and in her custody, as he alleges, don't you imagine he
would have raced to get possession both of her and of them?
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