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Now, why is it, men of the jury, that I
have told you this? Because I did not receive the whole of my wife's portion,
but a thousand drachmae were left unpaid with the understanding that I should
receive them on the death of Polyeuctus; and so long as Leocrates was the heir
of Polyeuctus, it was he who was responsible to me for the debt; but when
Leocrates had left the family, and Polyeuctus was seriously ill, then, men of
the jury, to secure the ten minae, I took a mortgage on this house, the rents
accruing from which Spudias seeks to prevent me from collecting.
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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