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Finally, to make a long story short, I
stationed men inside to keep watch, and by Zeus I gave strict orders to the
ass-drivers and made them stop carrying off timber from the farm （for
in addition to the rest of his property Phaenippus has also this very
considerable source of revenue: six asses carry off wood the whole year through,
and he receives more than twelve drachmae a day）. I forbade the
ass-drivers, as I said, to touch the wood, and after giving notice to Phaenippus
to attend the sacrifice,1 as the law commands, I went back to the
city.
1 Evidently for the purpose of taking the oath.
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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