Excerpt from Cornelius Nepos: Literally Translated, With Notes
If these readers Will but understand that the same things are not becoming or unbecoming among all people, but that every thing is judged by the usages of men's forefathers. They will not wonder that we, in setting forth the excellencies of the Greeks, have had regard to their manners. For to Cimon, an eminent man among the Athenians. It was thought no disgrace to have his half-sister,§ by the father's Side, in marriage, as his countrymen followed the same practice; but such a union, according to the order of things among us, is deemed unlawful.
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