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My mother lay sick,1 and was at
the point of death while I was abroad, so that she was unable any longer to help
in the depletion of my resources save to a slight extent. I had been but six
days at home, when, after she had seen and greeted me, she breathed her last,
being no longer mistress of her property, so as to give me I as much as she
wished. She had often sent for me before this, begging me to come to her by
myself if I could not come in my ship.
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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