[17]
To go back to the
beginning, men of the jury, Meidylides and Archiades gave their sister in
marriage to Leostratus of Eleusis; and after a time from this sister of theirs,
thus given in marriage, there was born Leocrates, the Iather of the defendant
Leostratus; observe how distantly related he is to Archiades, regarding whom
they have filed the affidavit of objections. When matters were as I have stated,
Archiades did not marry, but his brother Meidylides, the grandfather of my
father here, did marry.
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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