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I have not
deserved, men of the jury, to fail of justice at your hands, nor has Aphobus
deserved that he should retain all the money that he has wrongfully taken.
Regarding myself, even though you have as yet had no experience to prove what
manner of man I am in my relations to you, yet it is fair to expect that I shall
not be worse than my father; but of this man you have had experience, and you
know well that, though he inherited a large estate, he has shown no generosity
toward you, but has been proven to be a defrauder of others.
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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