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When she appeared, he took of the entrails, and placing them in her
hand, besought her in these words following:
"Dear mother, I beseech you, by all the gods, and chiefly by our
own hearth-god Jupiter, tell me the very truth, who was really my
father. For Leotychides, in the suit which we had together,
declared that when thou becamest Ariston's wife thou didst already
bear in thy womb a child by thy former husband, and others repeat a yet
more disgraceful tale, that our groom found favour in thine eyes, and
that I am his son. I entreat thee therefore by the gods to tell me
the truth. For if thou hast gone astray, thou hast done no more than
many a woman; and the Spartans remark it as strange, if I am
Ariston's son, that he had no children by his other wives."
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