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Such being the
law, I fancy that this man—call him Boeotus or Mantitheus, or any
other name by which he likes to be addressed—will have no valid or
genuine defence to offer, but, relying upon his own audaciousness and
effrontery, will endeavor to attach to me the misfortunes of his own family, as
he is wont to do also in private life; and will allege that when the property of
Pamphilus, who was the father of Plangon, was confiscated, my father took from
out the council-chamber1 the surplus proceeds2 and he will thus
try to show that his own mother brought a dowry of more than one hundred minae,
while my mother （he will claim） brought my father no portion
whatever.
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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