[43] Now it is plain, men of
Athens
, that it was not my father who first received my mother in marriage. No; it was Protomachus,and he had by her a son, and a daughter whom he gave in marriage. And he, even though dead, bears testimony by what he did that my mother was an Athenian and of civic birth.
To prove that these statements of mine are true,
(to the clerk)
call first, please, the sons of Protomachus, and next the witnesses who were present when my mother was betrothed to my father, and from the members of the clan the kinsfolk to whom my father gave the marriage-feast in honor of my mother. After them call Eunicus of Cholargus, 1 who received my sister in marriage from Protomachus, and then my sister’s son. Call them.The Witnesses
Against Eubulides. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.
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