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For this man Theocrines came forward, admitted the debt and
in the presence of the members of the tribe promised to pay it, when he saw that
we were coming up and were planning to take a copy of what stood written in the
register.“
Decree
”With much better reason, men of
Athens, would you commend the
members of the tribe Leontis, who compelled Theocrines to pay the seven minae,
than this fellow himself.
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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