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And this is what appears to me to
be exactly the plight of Onetor. For tell me, how can it be just, if you set up
pillars for eighty minae, that the dowry should be eighty minae; and, if for
more, more; and, if for less, less? Or how is it just, when your sister up to
this present day has never lived with any other man, or been separated from
Aphobus, when you have neither paid the dowry, nor been willing to have recourse
to the torture, or to any other fair means of determining the matters at issue,
that because you claim to have set up pillars, the farm shall belong to you? I
certainly do not see how it can be. It is the truth to which we must look, not
to arguments which a man has contrived （as you are doing） in
order to seem to speak with some plausibility.
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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