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But, rather, read the law itself. Yet, stop a moment, please. For I
made this offer before to Phaenippus, and now again, men of the jury, I tender
it freely:—I will surrender to him all my property including that in
the mining works, if he will hand over to me the farm alone free from all
encumbrances as it was when I first went to it with witnesses, and will replace
as they were before the grain and wine and the other things which he has carried
away from the buildings after removing the seals from the doors.
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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