Demades, On the Twelve Years, ed. John Ormiston Burtt, 37

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[37] The daughters of Erechtheus,¹ by nobility of virtue, triumphed over the woman’s weakness in their hearts the frailty of their nature was made virile by devotion to the soil that reared them.

On the Twelve Years. Demades. ed. John Ormiston Burtt. London. 1954.

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[37] αἱ θυγατέρες Ἐρεχθέως τῷ καλῷ τῆς ἀρετῆς τὸ θῆλυ τῆς ψυχῆς ἐνίκησαν, καὶ τὸ τῆς φύσεως ἀσθενὲς ἔπανδρον ἐποίησεν ἡ πρὸς τὸ θρέψαν ἔδαφος φιλοστοργία.

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1. For the story of the daughters of Erechtheus see Lyc. 98 and note.

Demades On the Twelve Years 37

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