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9.102. Let man and woman, united in marriage, constantly exert themselves, that (they may not be) disunited
(and) may not violate their mutual fidelity.
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9.103. Thus has been declared to you the law for a husband and his wife, which is intimately connected with
conjugal happiness, and the manner of raising offspring in times of calamity; learn (now the law concerning) the
division of the inheritance.
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9.104. After the death of the father and of the mother, the brothers, being assembled, may divide among
themselves in equal shares the paternal (and the maternal) estate; for, they have no power (over it) while the
parents live.
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9.105. (Or) the eldest alone may take the whole paternal estate, the others shall live under him just as (they
lived) under their father.
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9.106. Immediately on the birth of his first-born a man is (called) the father of a son and is freed from the debt
to the manes; that (son), therefore, is worthy (to receive) the whole estate.
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9.107. That son alone on whom he throws his debt and through whom he obtains immortality, is begotten for
(the fulfilment of) the law; all the rest they consider the offspring of desire.
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9.108. As a father (supports) his sons, so let the eldest support his younger brothers, and let them also in
accordance with the law behave towards their eldest brother as sons (behave towards their father).
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9.109. The eldest (son) makes the family prosperous or, on the contrary, brings it to ruin; the eldest (is
considered) among men most worthy of honour, the eldest is not treated with disrespect by the virtuous.
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9.110. If the eldest brother behaves as an eldest brother (ought to do), he (must be treated) like a mother and like
a father; but if he behaves in a manner unworthy of an eldest brother, he should yet be honoured like a kinsman.
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