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and again not to institute suit before the king.1 For that course is not open to you under the law,
since the woman is not a relative of yours nor yet a servant, according to your
own statement; and it is to relatives or to masters that the law appoints the
duty of prosecuting. If, then, you should take the oath at the Palladium,2 yourself
and your wife and your children, and imprecate curses upon yourselves and your
house, you will lose the goodwill of many, and if your opponent is acquitted,
you will be thought to have committed perjury, and if you convict him, you will
he an object of malice. No, after you have performed the proper religious rites
to cleanse yourself and your house, bear your misfortune with such patience as
you can, and, if you choose, avenge yourself in some other way.”
1 That is, the king-archon; cf. Dem. 43.42 and Dem. 43.43
2 The Palladium （properly a statue of Pallas） was the name of the place where the court of the ἐφέται held its sessions. On this court see Dem. 43.57, with the note.
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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