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Although I have
so many proofs ready to hand it is Onetor himself who most convincingly showed
that the divorce was not a genuine one. He, who should have felt outraged, when,
after paying the dowry, as he claims, he got back, not the money, but a farm
whose title was under dispute,—this very man, as though he had had no
quarrel, and were in no way being wronged, but as though he were on the most
intimate terms possible with Aphobus, pleaded for the latter in the suit which I
brought against him! As for myself, though I had done him no conceivable injury,
he leagued with Aphobus, and sought by every means in his power to join in
robbing me of my patrimony, while for Aphobus, whom he should have regarded as a
stranger, if there is any truth in their present story, he sought to acquire
possession of my property in addition to what he already had.
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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