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All these
monies he has received; he has debts due him to the value of many talents, which
he is collecting, some by voluntary payments, some by bringing action. These
debts were owing to Pasio—quite apart from the rent of the bank and
the other property which he left;—and these the two brothers have
recovered. He has expended upon public services merely what you have heard, the
smallest fraction of his income, not to say of his capital; and yet he will
assume a bragging air, and will talk about his expenditures for trierarchal and
choregic services.1
1 As a matter of fact Apollodorus had served as trierarch with distinction, and had been most liberal in his expenditures. See Dem. 50.11 ff., and Oration Dem. 45.78.
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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