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When I heard this, on the spur of the moment and
without even taking thought, I agreed to take my money, and I persuaded Evergus
to adopt the same course. But when the time came for us to receive our money,
the matter having been brought to this conclusion, the people who had previously
made the offer declared then that they would not pay us unless we became vendors
to them of the property, and in this point anyway, men of Athens, they were
prudent; for they saw in what baseless and malicious charges we were involved by
this fellow.To prove that I am speaking the truth
in this, take, please, these depositions also.“
Depositions
”
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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