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For the
law, men of the jury, ordains that prosecution shall be by relatives within the
degree of children of cousins; and that in the oath inquiry shall be made as to
what the relationship is, even if the victim be a servant; and it is from these
persons that criminal actions shall proceed. But the woman was in no way related
to me by blood, she had only been my nurse; nor again was she a servant; for she
had been set free by my father, and she lived in a separate house, and had taken
a husband.
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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