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In the second place, when Pasicles
had come of age, and was receiving the report of his guardians' administration,
what man, even though he shrank from accusing his mother with his own lips of
having destroyed the papers, would have failed to reveal the fact to his
brother, so that through him it might have been thoroughly investigated? In the
third place, what were the papers upon which you based the action which you
brought? For the plaintiff has brought suits against many citizens, and has
recovered large sums of money, charging in his complaints, “So and so
has injured me by not paying back to me the money which my father's papers show
he owed the latter at his death.”
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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