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（I have a piece of
land near the Hippodrome, and have lived there since my boyhood）, and
first they made a rush to seize the household slaves, but since these escaped
them and got off one here and another there, they went to the house, and
bursting open the gate which led into the garden （these were this man
Evergus, the brother of Theophemus, and Mnesibulus, his brother-in-law, who had
won no judgement against me, and who had no right to touch anything that was
mine）—these men, I say,1 entered into the presence of my wife and
children and carried off all the furniture that was still left in the house.
1 This was an unpardonable outrage.
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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