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I would, then, have each one of you
consider that he is casting his vote, one in the interest of his wife, one of
his daughter, one of his mother, and one in the interest of the state and the
laws and of religion, in order that these women may not be shown to be held in
like esteem with the harlot, and that women who have been brought up by their
relatives with great care and in the grace of modesty and have been given in
marriage according to the laws may not be seen to be sharing on an equal footing
with a creature who in many and obscene ways has bestowed her favors many times
a day on all comers, as each one happened to desire.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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