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Another, Socles, who had been in the banking business, gave
his wife in marriage to Timodemus, who is still in being and alive, who had been
his slave. And it is not here only, men of Athens, that those engaged in this
line of business so act; but in Aegina Strymodorus gave his wife in marriage to
Hermaeus, his own slave, and again, after her death, gave him his own
daughter.1
1 It is probable that the word “gave” refers to provisions in the will of Strymodorus. We must then assume that the wife died after the will was made, but before the death of Strymodorus. So Sandys.
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