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I never before at any time in my life had
any business transaction with Theophemus, nor yet any revel or love-affair or
drinking-bout, to lead me to go to his house, because of a quarrel with him
about some matter in which he had got the better of me, or under the excitement
of amorous passion. No, but in obedience to decrees passed by your assembly and
senate and at the bidding of the law I demanded of him the ship's equipment
which he owed to the state. For what reason, I shall proceed to tell you.
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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