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So corrupt
and selfish was his attitude towards you that he thought that his own father,
imprisoned by the State for moneys due, had a right to escape, without payment
and without trial, but that any other citizen, not having the means to pay,
might be dragged from his own home to prison. And then, on the top of all this,
as though he could do whatever he liked, he distrained upon Sinope and
Phanostrate, who were prostitutes certainly, but owed no property-tax.
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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