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When the matter
stood thus, and the people whom the plaintiff had introduced to us would not
give up the money, and it was clear that we were rightfully in possession of
what we had purchased, he begged, and implored, and besought us to sell the
property. As he made this demand and begged me most earnestly—there is
nothing he did not do—I gave way in this matter also.
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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