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Accordingly he first
conspired against me with some persons with whom I was at law, and bound himself
by an oath to support them; then, after my action against them had commenced, he
divulged to them my arguments, with which he was acquainted, and he entered me
as a debtor to the public treasury to the amount of six hundred and ten
drachmae, as a fine for non-production of property （although no
citation had been served upon me）, having got the case brought on
through the agency of Lycidas the miller. As witnesses against me to attest the
citation, he entered the name of his own brother, this Arethusius to whom these
slaves belong, and another person; and they were prepared, in the event of my
bringing to a preliminary hearing the suits which I had entered against my
relatives1
who were wronging me, to lay an information against me, as being a debtor to the
treasury, and throw me into prison.
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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