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Indeed you have come to such a pitch of
insanity—what other name can one find for it?—as not to see
that at this moment we, who claim that, since Phormio has received his freedom,
it should not be remembered against him that he once belonged to your father,
are speaking in your interest; while you, in insisting that he should never be
on a footing of equality with yourself, are speaking against yourself; for the
same rule, which you lay down as just for yourself against Phormio, will be
advanced against you by those who at the first were the masters of your
father.To prove that Pasio also was
somebody's slave, and that he afterwards won his freedom in the same manner in
which Phormio won his from you, take, please, these depositions, which show that
Pasio belonged to Archestratus.“
Depositions
”
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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