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I wish now, men
of the jury, to instruct you in detail also regarding the other claims which I
make. They received from the wife of Polyeuctus a bowl, which they pawned
together with some pieces of jewelry, and this they have not redeemed and
brought into the general account, as Demophilus, to whom it was pawned, will
testify. They have also some stuff for hangings,1 which they received, but they do not account for
this either; and many more articles of the same sort. And finally, although my
wife advanced a mina of silver and expended it on her father's behalf for the
feast of the dead,2 the defendant
refuses to contribute his share even of this; nay, what he has received he
keeps; of other items he receives his due portion; but these claims he thus
openly refuses to meet.Now that these matters too
may not be left neglected, take, please, the depositions regarding them
all.“
Depositions
”
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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