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Why are you, then, so fond of
wrangling? Desist, I beg you; do not be so ready to cherish enmity against me. I
am not so minded toward you. For even now—lest the fact escape your
notice—I am speaking rather in your interest than in my own, in
insisting that we should not have the same name. If there were no other reason,
at least anyone hearing it must ask which of us is meant if there are two
Mantitheuses, sons of Mantias. Then he will say, “The one whom he was
compelled to adopt,” if he means you. How can you desire this? Now
take, please, and read these two depositions, proving that my father gave me the
name Mantitheus, and him the name Boeotus.“
Depositions
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