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In the first place, then, I shall bring before you as
witnesses those who were present when Polyeuctus betrothed his daughter to me
with a portion of forty minae; then I shall prove that what I received was less
by a thousand drachmae; and further that Polyeuctus always admitted that he was
in my debt, and that he introduced to me Leocrates as guarantor1; and that at his death he directed by his will
that pillars should be set up on the house in my favor for a thousand drachmae
due on account of my wife's portion.Please call
the witnesses.“
Witnesses
”
1 That is, as the person who would be responsible for payment after his own 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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