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One more instance, then, of
his private crimes, and I will pass over the rest. Before Aristogeiton was
released, a man of Tanagra was
thrown into the prison until he could find bail. Aristogeiton accosts him and,
while chatting on some topic or other, filches the pocket-book that he had on
him; and when the man charged him with the theft and made a to-do about it,
saying that no one else could have taken it, he so far forgot all decency that
he tried to strike him.
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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