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Nay more, even if all these statements of his were
indeed true, it is not just, I take it, if the laws are good for anything, that
I should lose the marriage portion which was promised me, or that Polyeuctus, if
he chose to give a smaller portion to one daughter and a larger to the other,
should now be thwarted. For it was open to you, Spudias, not to marry his
daughter, unless the thousand drachmae were given to you as well as to me.
However you received no less than I, as I shall show.But, first, take the deposition which shows on what terms the
lady was given to him.“
Deposition
”
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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