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Is not the wrong I have suffered from the beginning great
indeed, and great the harm they are striving to do me now, because I seek to
obtain redress? Who of you would not rightly feel indignation against this man
and pity for me, seeing that to the estate of more than ten talents which he
inherited there has been added my own of such considerable size, while I have
not only been defrauded of my inheritance, but am by the rascality of these men
being robbed even of what they have now repaid me? To what are we to turn, if
you give a different decision regarding them? To the goods mortgaged to our
creditors? But they belong to the holders of the mortgage. To what is left after
the creditors are paid? But that becomes the property of the defendant, if you
condemn me to pay an obol on each drachma.1
1 See note on Dem. 27.67. The entire property of the plaintiff would be exhausted in payment of the damages imposed.
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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