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That these statements of mine are true, I will prove to
you by the clearest and most convincing testimony; but I wish first to go back
to the origins of the law and to show how it came to be enacted and who those
were whom its provisions covered as being men of worth who had shown themselves
staunch friends to the people of Athens. For from all this you will know that
the people's gift which is reserved for benefactors is being dragged through the
mire, and how great the privileges are which are being taken from your control
by this fellow Stephanus and those who have married and begotten children in the
manner followed by him.
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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