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From the very
first, you see, it is admitted that the dowry was not paid to Aphobus, and that
he did not get it under his control. And it seems very probable that on account
of the facts which I have mentioned, they chose to continue as debtors for the
dowry, rather than to have it involved in the estate of Aphobus which was sure
to be so seriously endangered. For it is impossible for them to claim that
poverty prevented their paying it over at once, since Timocrates has an estate
of more than ten talents, and Onetor one of more than thirty; so this cannot
have been the reason why they have not made an immediate payment.
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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