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Then Clisthenes commanded silence, and spake thus before the
assembled company:
"Suitors of my daughter, well pleased am I with you all; and right
willingly, if it were possible, would I content you all, and not by
making choice of one appear to put a slight upon the rest. But as it
is out of my power, seeing that I have but one daughter, to grant to
all their wishes, I will present to each of you whom I must needs
dismiss a talent of silver, for the honour that you have done me in
seeking to ally yourselves with my house, and for your long absence
from your homes. But my daughter, Agarista, I betroth to
Megacles, the son of Alcmaeon, to be his wife, according to the
usage and wont of Athens."
Then Megacles expressed his readiness; and Clisthenes had the
marriage solemnised.
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