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Nor can they claim that they had property indeed, but
no ready money, or that the lady was a widow, and that they therefore hastened
to conclude matters without at once paying her portion. For these men are in the
habit of lending considerable sums to others, and moreover, the lady was not a
widow, but when they gave her in marriage, it was from the house of Timocrates,
where she was living with him as his wife; so that there is no reasonable ground
why one should accept this excuse either.
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