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For when it proved that Aphobus, though he
had her fortune, would not maintain my mother, and refused to let the property,
choosing rather to administer it himself in conjunction with the other
guardians, Demochares remonstrated with him about the matter; and Aphobus, when
he had heard him, neither denied that he had the money nor waxed indignant as
one who had received nothing, but admitted the fact, and said that he was having
a little dispute with my mother about her jewels, and that, when he had settled
this matter, he would act regarding the maintenance and all else in such a way
that I should have no ground for complaint.
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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