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For his mother and the father of
my wife are a brother and sister, so that my wife is his first cousin, and the
children born to her and to me are his cousin's children. Do you think, then,
that this man, if he saw his female relatives driven by want to shameful
actions, would give them in marriage and add marriage portions out of his own
resources—a thing which many a man has done ere now—when he
has chosen to give false testimony in order to prevent their getting what
belongs to them, and has counted the wealth of Phormio of higher worth than the
strong ties of kinship?
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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