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Furthermore, Aphobus himself in conjunction with his
co-trustees revealed to the state the amount of the property left me, when he
appointed me leader of the tax-group and that at no low rating, but at one so
high as to entail a payment of five hundred drachmae on each twenty-five
minae.1 And yet, if there were any truth in
what he says, he would not have acted thus, but would have taken every
precaution. But, as it is, Demochares, and my father, and these men themselves
have manifestly let their wealth be known; they plainly feared no such risk as
that of which he speaks.
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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