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Now this particular piece of land, as it happened, was
inundated after a heavy downpour had occurred. As a result of neglect, when my
father was not yet in possession of the land, but a man held it who utterly
disliked the neighborhood, and preferred to live in the city, the water
overflowed two or three times, wrought damage to the land, and was more and more
making itself a path. For this reason my father, when he saw it （so I
am informed by those acquainted with the circumstances）, inasmuch as
the neighbors also began to encroach upon the property and walk across it, built
around it this enclosing wall.
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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