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（and by Zeus and Apollo and Demeter, I shall make no false statement
to you, men of the jury, but shall relate to you what I heard from my
father）—“You have a chance,” he
continued, “to do a good turn to me, and no harm to yourself. It
happens that I am proxenos of the Heracleotes, and you would be glad, I should
think, to have me get the money rather than an alien who resides in Scyros, and
is a man of no account. Matters have turned out like this. Lycon was without
children, and has left, as I am informed, no heir in his house.
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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