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However, suppose one should ask this Boeotus the following
questions: “When you thought it right to join the chorus in the tribe
Hippothontis before you claimed to be the son of my father, what name would you
have set down as rightly belonging to you? For if you should say, Mantitheus,
you could not do so on the plea that you are older than I, for since at that
time you did not suppose you had any connection even with my tribe, how could
you claim to be related to my grandfather?
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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