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It is an outrage,
though, that one of them should say that the land was mortgaged to him, while
the mortgagor is to be seen cultivating it; that he should claim that his sister
has left her husband, when he is shown to have refused to accept the test by
torture regarding this very point; and that the one who is not living with his
wife （as Onetor claims） should carry off all the produce and
implements from the farm, while the man acting as guardian for the divorced
woman, to secure whose portion he claims to have taken a mortgage on the land,
plainly shows no anger at a single one of these acts, but takes everything
quietly.
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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