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It is, then, an outrage that
whereas thanks to that name you have a share in the right of citizenship and in
the estate left by my father, you should see fit to fling it aside and take
another name. Come; suppose my father were to rise from the grave and demand of
you either to abide by the name under which he adopted you, or to declare
yourself the son of some other father, would his demand not be thought a
reasonable one? Well then, I make this same demand of you, either to add to your
name that of another father, or to keep the name which Mantias gave you.
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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