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My grandfather, men of Athens, the father of my mother, was Damostratus of
Melitê.1 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 Sicily2 and were killed there, and he
lies buried in the public tomb.3 These facts will be proved to you by testimony.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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