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What
if the name be involved in the filing of any other suit, or, in general, in any
unpleasant scandal? Who, among people at large, will know which of the two it
is, when there are two Mantitheuses having the same father? Suppose, again, that
he should be prosecuted for evasion of military service, and should be serving
as chorister when he ought to be abroad with the army—as, a while ago,
when the rest went over to Tamynae,1 he was left behind here keeping the feast of Pitchers,2 and remained here and
served in the chorus at the Dionysia,3 as all of you who were at home
saw;
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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