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For instance, I have not only had the misfortune in
the beginning that Plangon, the mother of these men, by deceit and manifest
perjury, compelled my father to bring himself to acknowledge them, and that
consequently I was robbed of two-thirds of my inheritance; but, in addition to
this, I have been driven by these men out of the house of my fathers, in which I
was born and brought up, and into which they were admitted, not by my father,
but by myself after his death;
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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