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In what, then, consist his splendor, his public services and
his lordly expenditure? I cannot for the life of me see, unless one fixes one's
attention on these facts. He has built at Eleusis a mansion huge enough to overshadow his neighbors; he
drives his wife to the Mysteries, or anywhere else that he wishes, with a pair
of greys from Sicyon; he swaggers about
the market-place with three or four henchmen in attendance, describing beakers
and drinking-horns and cups loud enough for the passers-by to hear.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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