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But
in regard to these statements and this accusation, observe what convincing
proofs one could advance to show that he is lying. In the first place, men of
Athens, what man would have accepted a distribution of his inheritance, if he
had not papers from which he could determine the amount of estate left him? No
man, assuredly. Yet it is eighteen years, Apollodorus, since you accepted the
distribution, and you cannot show that you at any time made any complaint about
the papers.
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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