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Or again, if any other
magistrate, the Archon, the King-Archon, the Stewards of the Games, makes an
appointment for some public service, what sign will there be to indicate which
one of us they are appointing? Are they in heaven's name to add the designation
“son of Plangon,'' if they are entering your name, or add the name of
my mother if they are entering mine? But who ever heard of such a thing? or by
what law could this special designation be appended, or anything else, except
the name of the father and the deme? And seeing that both of these are the same
great confusion must result.
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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