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Well then, Phaenippus,
just as though the law enjoined that one should do nothing that one had agreed
to, from the day on which he promised to meet me for a settlement and to give me
an inventory of his property and receive from me one of mine, never put in an
appearance; but I, when I saw that he was paying no heed to me or to the laws,
gave in my inventory at the office of the generals, whereas Phaenippus, as I
said a moment ago, gave me a paper only the other day with no other purpose than
that he might appear to have given me his inventory, but that I should be unable
to make any use of its contents.
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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