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And, besides, think how absurd it is that
this fellow should abuse my father for his failings toward him, when it was
thanks to this father's failings1 that he became a
citizen of your state. I, on my part, have, thanks to the mother of these men,
been deprived of two-thirds of my property, but for all that I have too much
respect for you to speak disparagingly of her.
1 “There is a play on the double sense of ἁμαρτάνειν, which is often used as a euphemism for the frailties of love.”—Paley.
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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