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My grandfather, men of Athens, the father of my mother, was Damostratus of Melitê.Melitê, a deme of the tribe Cecropis. To him were born four children; by his first wife a daughter and a son Amytheon, and by his second wife Chaerestratê my mother and Timocrates. These also had children. Amytheon had a son Damostratus, who bore the same name as his grandfather, and two others, Callistratus and Dexitheus. Amytheon, my mother’s brother, was one of those who served in the campaign in SicilyThe disastrous expedition to Sicily was sent out in 415 B.C. and were killed there, and he lies buried in the public tomb.A cenotaph, of course. These facts will be proved to you by testimony.
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To Amytheon’s sister, who married Diodorus of Halae,For the two demes of this name see note a on p. 336 of vol. ii. was born a son Ctesibius, and he was killed in AbydusA town on Hellespont. The date of this campaign was 388 B.C. while serving in the campaign with Thrasybulus. Of these relatives there is living Damostratus, son of Amytheon and nephew of my mother. The sister of my grandmother Chaerestratê was married to Apollodorus of Plotheia.Plotheia, a deme of the tribe Aegeïs. They had a son Olympichus, and Olympichus a son Apollodorus, who is still living.
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(To the clerk.) Call these people, please.
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