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Ah, but he will say perhaps, that my father got some private
profit out of the money, and therefore took sides with Cephisiades rather than
with the plaintiff. Then we are to believe, in the first place, that he wronged
a man who would be able to do him injury to twice the amount of his gains, and
secondly that my father in this instance was a base lover of gain, whereas in
regard to special taxes and public services and gifts to the state he was not.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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