"For they say that the Athenians were short of men and, wishing to increase the population, passed a decree permitting a citizen to marry one Athenian woman and have children by another; and that Socrates accordingly did so."
Socrates

January 1, 1970

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Diogenes Laërtius, ii. 26

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