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Demosthenes, my father, men of the jury, left at his death an
estate of nearly fourteen talents, a son, myself, aged seven, and my sister,
aged five, and his widow, our mother, who had brought him a fortune of fifty
minae. He had taken thought for our welfare, and, when he was about to die, put
all this property in the hands of the defendant, Aphobus, and Demophon, son of
Demo, nephews of his, one by his brother, the other by his sister, and of
Therippides of Paeania,1 who was not a relative, but had been his friend
from boyhood.
1 Paeania was a deme of the tribe Pandionis.
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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