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“Because,” it may be said, “everybody will know
which of us two was fined.” Very good; but suppose （what
might very well happen） that time passes and the debt is not paid; why
is there any greater likelihood that the defendant's children will be entered on
the list of state debtors any more than my own when the name of the father and
the tribe, and all else are identical? Suppose, now, somebody should bring a
suit for ejectment against him, and should state that he had nothing to do with
me, but, having had the writ registered, should enter the name, why will the
name he has entered be that of my opponent any more than my own? What if he
fails to pay any of the property-taxes?
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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