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Some
time after this, when by now two children had been born to her, she was
compelled at a time when my father was absent on military service with
Thrasybulus and she herself was in hard straits, to take Cleinias, the son of
Cleidicus, to nurse. This act of hers was, Heaven knows, none too fortunate with
reference to the danger which has now come upon me （for it was from
this nursing that all the slander about us has arisen）; but in view of
the poverty with which she had to cope she did what was perhaps both necessary
and fitting.
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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