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Is there anyone of you who can believe
that? And assuredly it is not open to him to say this, either—that
when he was a little child my father acknowledged him, but that when he was
grown he scorned him because of some quarrel with the mother of these men;1 for surely man and
wife are much more apt, in cases where they are at variance with one another, to
become reconciled for the sake of their children than, because of their enmity
toward each other, to hate their common children as well. If, therefore, he
attempts to say this, do not permit him to brazen it out.
1 Compare the parallel passage in the preceding oration, Dem. 39.23.
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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