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I was chairman of one of
the tax-syndicates1 for ten years, contributing the
same share as Phormio, Lysitheides, Callaeschrus, and the richest citizens, not
from my actual property, of which my guardians had robbed me, but from the
estimated wealth which my father had left and which I was entitled to inherit
when I had passed the scrutiny for citizenship. That is how I have borne myself
towards you; but how has Meidias? To this day he has never been chairman of a
syndicate, though no one has ever robbed him of any part of his inheritance and
he has received from his father a large property.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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