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But my mother died, leaving me still a little boy, whereas the mother of these men, Plangon, who was a handsome woman, maintained her connection with him both before and after that; so that it was much more likely that for the sake of the living woman, with whom he was in love all this time, he would dishonor the son of her who was dead, than that for my sake and my dead mother’s he would refuse to acknowledge the children of her who was living and maintaining her connection with him.
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My opponent, however, has come to such a pitch of audacity as to declare that my father made feast for him on the tenth day.See the Introduction to the preceding oration. And in regard to this he has put in depositions of TimocratesPerhaps to be identified with the Timocrates against whom Demosthenes delivered Oration 24 (Dem. 24). and Promachus alone, who are in no way related to my father, and were not friends of his. The testimony they have borne is so patently false, that, whereas you all know that Boeotus by instituting proceedings forced my father against his will to acknowledge him these men, like witnesses to a summons—and only two of them—depose that he made a feast for this fellow on the tenth day!
