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The amount of the property that
was left is, however, none the less clear （though these men seek to
conceal it） from the terms of the will, in accordance with which they
state that such large sums were given to them severally. When a man out of four
talents and three thousand drachmae has given to two of these men three talents
and two thousand drachmae as marriage-portions, and to the third the interest on
seventy minae, it is clear, I fancy, that he took these sums, not from a small
estate, but from one bequeathed to me of more than double this amount.
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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