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But you cannot show it, for you have
learned secrecy and evasion and how to do everything to escape rendering service
to your fellow-citizens here. But I will show that I have expended large
sums—I, who inherited that slender estate from my father.Now read me first that law which declares that no mining
property shall be included in the inventory, and the challenge and then the
depositions proving that this fellow Phaenippus has inherited two estates that
performed public services.“
Law
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Challenge
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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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