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I could not suffer my old nurse,
or the slave who attended me as a boy, to live in want; at the same time I was
about to sail as trierarch and it was my wife's wish that I should leave such a
person to live in the house with her. They were lunching in the court when these
men burst in and found them there, and began to seize the furniture. The rest of
the female slaves （they were in a tower room where they live）,
when they heard the tumult, closed the door leading to the tower, so the men did
not get in there; but they carried off the furniture from the rest of the house,
although my wife forbade them to touch it,
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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