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For, I take it, he would not wish to leave
me, his son, in poverty, and be eager further to enrich these men, who were
already wealthy. No; it was because of the size of the estate left to me that he
gave to Therippides the interest on a sum so considerable, and to Demophon that
on the two talents—though he was not yet to marry my
sister—in order to accomplish one or the other of two ends: either he
would by his gifts encourage them to act the more honorably in the guardianship,
or, if they should prove dishonest, they would meet with no leniency at your
hands, seeing that, after being so liberally treated, they sinned so grievously
against us.
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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