Demosthenes, Against Boeotus II, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 6

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[6] My mother, men of the jury, was the daughter of Polyaratus, of Cholargus¹, and sister of Menexenus, and Bathyllus and Periander. Her father gave her in marriage to Cleomedon, son of Cleon,² adding a talent as her marriage-portion; and at the first she dwelt with him as his wife, and bore him three daughters and one son, Cleon. After this her husband died, and she left his family, receiving back her marriage-portion.

Against Boeotus II. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1936.

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Mantitheus Against Boeotus II (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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πρὸς Βοιωτὸν περὶ προικὸς μητρῴας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 6 focus

[6] ἡ γὰρ μήτηρ ἡ ἐμή, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, θυγάτηρ μὲν ἦν Πολυαράτου Χολαργέως, ἀδελφὴ δὲ Μενεξένου καὶ Βαθύλλου καὶ Περιάνδρου. ἐκδόντος δὲ αὐτὴν τοῦ πατρὸς Κλεομέδοντι τῷ Κλέωνος υἱεῖ, καὶ προῖκα τάλαντον ἐπιδόντος, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον τούτῳ συνῴκει· γενομένων δʼ αὐτῇ τριῶν μὲν θυγατέρων, υἱοῦ δʼ ἑνὸς Κλέωνος, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῇ τελευτήσαντος, ἀπολιποῦσα τὸν οἶκον καὶ κομισαμένη τὴν προῖκα,

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Against Boeotus II

1. Cholargus was a deme of the tribe Acamantis.

2. The famous demagogue, known to us from Thucydides and Aristophanes.

Demosthenes Against Boeotus II 6

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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