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More than this, as they were neighbors and my farm adjoined
theirs, they sent into it in the daytime a young boy who was an Athenian, and
put him up to plucking off the flowers from my rose-bed, in order that, if I
caught him and in a fit of anger put him in bonds or struck him, assuming him to
be a slave, they might bring against me an indictment for assault.When they failed in this, and I merely called witnesses
to observe the wrong done me without committing any offence against them myself,
they played against me the most dastardly trick.
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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