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And more
than all this, he who had secured a judgement against me for six hundred and ten
drachmae, when no citation had been served upon me, and had entered the names of
false witnesses to the citation, made a forcible entry into my house and carried
off all the furniture to the value of more than twenty minae; he did not leave a
thing. I thought it my duty to avenge myself, and after paying the debt to the
treasury on hearing of the fine, I was proceeding to indict the one who admitted
that he had cited me to appear （that is, Arethusius）, on a
charge of false citation, as the law directs. He, however, came to my farm by
night, cut off all the choice fruit-grafts that were there, and the tree-vines
as well, and broke down the nursery-beds of olive trees set in rows round about,
making worse havoc than enemies in war would have done.
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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