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however, he was not so wholly the slave of
his passion as to deem it right even after my mother's death to receive the
woman into his own house, or to admit that the defendants were his children. No,
for all the rest of the time they lived as not being sons of my father, as most
of you know; but after Boeotus had grown up and had associated with himself a
gang of blackmailers,1
whose leaders were Mnesicles and that Menecles who secured the conviction of
Ninus, in connection with these men he brought suit against my father, claiming
that he was his son.
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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