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With regard now
to Phormio's wealth and his having got it from your father's estate, and the
questions you said you were going to ask as to how Phormio acquired his fortune,
you have the least right of any man in the world to speak thus. For Pasio, your
father, did not acquire his fortune, any more than Phormio did, by good luck or
by inheritance from his father, but he gave proof to the bankers, Antisthenes
and Archestratus, who were his masters, that he was a good man and an honest,
and so won their confidence.
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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