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And one could mention many other such cases;
and no wonder. For although to you, men of Athens, who are citizens by birth, it
would be a disgrace to esteem any conceivable amount of wealth above your
honorable descent, yet those who obtain citizenship as a gift either from you or
from others, and who in the first instance, thanks to this good fortune, were
counted worthy of the same privileges, because of their success in money-making,
and their possession of more wealth than others, must hold fast to these
advantages. So your father Pasio—and he was neither the first nor the
last to do this—without bringing disgrace upon himself or upon you,
his sons, but seeing that the only protection for his business was that he
should bind the defendant to you by a family tie, for this reason gave to him in
marriage his own wife, your mother.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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