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that, even if any one of you heretofore thought him an
honest man, he will learn from the defendant's acts toward me that even in time
past he has been, without your knowing it, the basest and most unrighteous of
men. I shall show, namely, that he has not only never paid the marriage-portion,
to secure which he alleges that the land has been mortgaged, but from the very
start has schemed to defraud me of my rights; that, further, the lady, on whose
behalf he drove me from the land in question, has not been divorced at all;
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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