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But when Theseus settled the people in one city and established the democracy,
and the city became populous, the people none the less continued to elect the
king as before, choosing him from among those most distinguished by valor; and
they established a law that his wife should be of Athenian birth, and that he
should marry a virgin who had never known another man, to the end that after the
custom of our fathers the sacred rites that none may name may be celebrated on
the city's behalf, and that the approved sacrifices may be made to the gods as
piety demands, without omission or innovation.
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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