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I
have many other charges to make against him, but summing them all up in one, I
will break down every defence of his. He could have avoided all this trouble,
had he let the estate in accordance with these laws.Take the laws and read them.“
Laws
”In the case of Antidorus, as a result of
his property having been let in accordance with these laws, there was given over
to him, at the end of six years, an estate of six talents and more from an
original amount of three talents and three thousand drachmae; and this some of
you have seen with your own eyes; for Theogenes of Probalinthus,1 who leased the estate, counted out that sum in the
market-place.
1 Probalinthus 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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