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Well then, after suffering these annoyances at their hands
and many other grievous ones as well, I must be content, not indeed to win my
suit, but to escape paying a further penalty! If, men of the jury, there had
been a watercourse below me to receive the water, I should perhaps have been
wrong in not letting it in on my land, just as on certain other farms there are
recognized watercourses in which the first landowners let the water flow
（as they do the gutter-drains from the houses）, and others
again receive it from them in like manner. But on the land in question no one
gives the water over to me or receives it from me. How, then, can it be a
watercourse?
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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