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that her arms and wrists were covered with blood, as they wrenched
her arms and pulled her this way and that in taking the cup from her, and she
had lacerations on her throat, where they strangled her, and her breast was
black and blue. And they pushed their brutality to such extremes, that they did
not stop throttling and beating the old woman, until they had taken the cup from
her bosom.
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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