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For this is the most
absurd thing of all. Up to this day he has never seen fit to render an account
of the money of which he has defrauded me, but enters a special plea that my
action is not even admissible; yet he charges against me what I have received
from the estate of my fathers. Other slaves one may see called to strict account
by their masters, but here we see the very opposite: the fellow, though a slave,
calls his master to account, thinking thereby to show him forth as a vile fellow
and a prodigal.
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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