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It is plain,
then, that Onetor having put up pillars on the house for two thousand drachmae,
and on the land for a talent, intended to push his claim as though he had paid
eighty minae. Could you have stronger proof that there is not a word of truth in
what he now says, than the fact that his present story is different from the one
he told at first about the same matters? To me it seems that no stronger proof
than this could be found.
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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