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Let us then see what
additional contributors he provides to perform those public services, and how
many will be passed over if we turn a deaf ear to him. Now the richest citizens,
when equipping a war-galley, are already exempt from the ordinary services,
while those whose wealth is insufficient necessarily enjoy exemption and are out
of the reach of this tax; so his law will not provide us with another
contributor from either of these classes.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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