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For it is not fitting that I, having a
daughter of marriageable age, should dwell with men of their sort, who are not
only themselves living licentious lives, but who also bring into the house a
host of others of like stamp with themselves; nay, by Zeus, I do not deem it
safe to live in the same house with them myself. When they have thus openly laid
a plot, and got up a charge against me before the Areopagus, do you suppose
there is any poisoning or any other such villainy from which they would abstain?
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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