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But my mother died, leaving me still a little boy, whereas
the mother of these men, Plangon, who was a handsome woman, maintained her
connection with him both before and after that; so that it was much more likely
that for the sake of the living woman, with whom he was in love all this time,
he would dishonor the son of her who was dead, than that for my sake and my dead
mother's he would refuse to acknowledge the children of her who was living and
maintaining her connection with him.
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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