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And yet, by the gods, if I had led
you off to prison as a thief caught in the act, piling upon your
back—if this had been in any way possible—the wealth which
you now possess, and had then demanded of you, if you denied having got this
wealth by thievery, to refer me to the source from which you got it, to whom
would you have referred me? Your father did not give it to you; you did not find
it; you had not got it from some other source when you come into our family; for
you were a barbarian when you were purchased. Have you, then, a man who ought to
have been publicly put to death for what you have done, after saving your skin,
after securing for yourself a city with our money, and after being allowed to
beget children as brothers to your own masters—have you entered a
special plea that our action for the sums claimed from you is inadmissible?
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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