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For no sooner had Phrastor got up from that sickness and
recovered his health and was fairly well, than he took to wife according to the
laws an Athenian woman, the legitimate daughter of Satyrus, of Melitê,
and the sister of Diphilus. Let this, therefore, be a proof to you that he took
back the child, not willingly, but forced by his sickness, by his childless
condition, by the care shown by these women in nursing him, and by the enmity
which he felt toward his own relatives, and his wish that they should not
inherit his property, if anything should happen to him. This will be proved to
you even more clearly by what followed.
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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