[26] Nay more, even if all these statements of his were indeed true, it is not just, I take it, if the laws are good for anything, that I should lose the marriage portion which was promised me, or that Polyeuctus, if he chose to give a smaller portion to one daughter and a larger to the other, should now be thwarted. For it was open to you, Spudias, not to marry his daughter, unless the thousand drachmae were given to you as well as to me. However you received no less than I, as I shall show.
(To the clerk.)
But, first, take the deposition which shows on what terms the lady was given to him.The Deposition
Against Spudias. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.
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