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I wish now, men
of Athens, to bring before you the testimony also of the Athenian civic body, to
show you how great care they take in regard to these religious rites. For the
civic body of Athens, although it has supreme authority over all things in the
state, and it is in its power to do whatsoever it pleases, yet regarded the gift
of Athenian citizenship as so honorable and so sacred a thing that it enacted in
its own restraint laws to which it must conform, when it wishes to create a
citizen—laws which now have been dragged through the mire by Stephanus
and those who contract marriages of this sort.
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