Isocrates, Aegineticus, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 13

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[13] It was in accordance with this law, citizens of Aegina, that Thrasylochus adopted me as his son, for I was his fellow-citizen and friend, in birth inferior to no one of the Siphnians, and had been reared and educated very much as he himself had been. I therefore do not see how he could have acted more consistently with the law, since the law insists that persons of the same status may be adopted. Please take also the law of Ceos,¹ under which we were living.

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Aegineticus. Isocrates. Larue Van Hook (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Aegineticus (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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[13] κατὰ τουτονὶ τὸν νόμον, ὦ ἄνδρες Αἰγινῆται, υἱόν μʼ ἐποιήσατο Θρασύλοχος, πολίτην μὲν αὑτοῦ καὶ φίλον ὄντα, γεγονότα δʼ οὐδενὸς χεῖρον Σιφνίων, πεπαιδευμένον δʼ ὁμοίως αὑτῷ καὶ τεθραμμένον. ὥστʼ οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅπως ἂν μᾶλλον κατὰ τὸν νόμον ἔπραξεν, ὃς τοὺς ὁμοίους κελεύει παῖδας εἰσποιεῖσθαι. λαβὲ δή μοι καὶ τὸν Κείων νόμον, καθʼ ὃν ἡμεῖς ἐπολιτευόμεθα.

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1. The law of Ceos was valid also in Siphonos.

Isocrates Aegineticus 13

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