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But for
himself he has not scrupled to marry his mistress, and he dwells as husband with
her who scattered the sweatmeats over him when he was bought as a slave,1 nor to write a
clause giving himself a marriage portion of five talents in addition to the
large sums of which he became master, inasmuch as they were in the custody of my
mother—for why do you suppose he wrote in the will the clause
“and all else which she has I give to
Archippê”?—while he looks with indifference on my
daughters, who are doomed through poverty to grow old in maidenhood with none to
dower them.
1 It was believed to be a good omen to scatter sweetmeats, nuts, etc., over the head of a newly purchased slave. See Aristoph. Pl. 768
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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