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But now that he has disfranchised
the man he wanted to, and you have indulged him in this; now that he has sated
that shameless temper that prompted him to this course, has he finished the
business? Has he paid the fine, to escape which he ruined the poor fellow? Not a
brass farthing of it to this day! He submits rather to be the defendant in an
action for ejectment. So the one man is disfranchised and ruined on a side
issue; the other is unscathed and is playing havoc with the laws, the
arbitrators, and everything else that he pleases.
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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