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The jury, to whom he
then appealed, having heard the case, gave the same decision that his own
friends and the arbitrator had given, and fixed the damages at ten talents. This
was not, heaven knows, because he had admitted Milyas to be a freeman （for this was nothing to the
point）, but because, a fortune of fifteen talents having been left me,
he had not let the property; because further, he with his co-trustees had the
management of the estate for ten years, and agreed on behalf of me, a child, to
pay a property-tax at the rate of five minae,1
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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