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and I, who lent forty minae, am defendant
in this suit for two talents. Again, on property on which you were never able to
borrow more than one hundred minae, and which you sold outright for three
talents and two thousand drachmae,1 you have, as it seems,
sustained damages to the amount of four talents! From whom? From my slave, you
will say. But what citizen would let himself be ousted from his own property by
a slave? Or who would say that it is right that my slave be held responsible for
acts, for which the plaintiff has brought action against Evergus and obtained a
verdict?
1 That is, in round numbers. In Dem. 37.31 the sum is given as three talents, twenty-six hundred drachmae.
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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