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For you will find that the evidence adduced
proves not that my grandfather is a state-debtor, but that he was one. I shall
undertake first to refute this charge of which he thinks to make so much, and
which we declare to be false. If I had been able to do so, and had not been thus
ensnared by lack of time, I should have brought forward witnesses to prove that
the money was paid in full, and that everything was settled between my
grandfather and the state; as it is, I shall show by strong proofs that he was
not indebted at the time of his death, and that we incurred no risks in letting
our wealth be known.
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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