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And yet how large must
one suppose the quantity left by my father to have been, when it is shown to
have sufficed for such extensive factories, and to have been sold by the
guardians besides? Was it a small amount, or not rather much more than I have
charged?Take now these depositions and read
them to the jury.“
Depositions
”Of this ivory, you see, there is more
than a talent's worth of which they make no report—neither of the raw
material nor of the finished product. No; this also they have utterly and
absolutely made away with.
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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