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My father, finding that these people had been accredited by Conon, and were of proved respectability and—at that time at leastSo far there were no signs of their later disloyalty.—in the good graces of the city, was persuaded to bestow her: he did not know the slander that was to follow. It was a time when anyone among you would have deemed it desirable to be connected with them; for it was not done for the sake of money, as you may readily judge from my father’s whole life and conduct.
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When he was of age, he had the chance of marrying another woman with a great fortune; but he took my mother without a portion, merely because she was a daughter of Xenophon,One of the Athenian generals to whom the Potidaeans surrendered in 430 B.C. He was killed in a fight with the Chalcidians in Thrace, 429 B.C. (cf. Thuc. 2.70, 79). son of Euripides, a man not only known for his private virtues but also deemed worthy by you of holding high command, so I am told.
