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You will see even more clearly, men of the
jury, from the following law, that the lawgiver Solon is very much in earnest in
regard to those who are relatives, and not only gives them the property left by
the deceased, but also lays upon them all the burdensome obligations.Read the law.“LawThe deceased shall be
laid out in the house in any way one chooses, and they shall carry out the
deceased on the day after that on which they lay him out, before the sun
rises. And the men shall walk in front, when they carry him out, and the
women behind. And no woman less than sixty years of age shall be permitted
to enter the chamber of the deceased, or to follow the deceased when he is
carried to the tomb, except those who are within the degree of children of
cousins; nor shall any woman be permitted to enter the chamber of the
deceased when the body is carried out, except those who are within the
degree of children of cousins.”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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