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I have shown you that these assertions of his
will be false; however, even if they should all prove to be true, I think it
more honorable and more just that he should continue to render public service
from his own funds, than that you should give him the defendant's property, and
while receiving yourselves but a small portion of the whole, should see the
defendant reduced to extreme poverty, and the plaintiff in wanton insolence and
spending his money in the manner that has been his wont.1
1 Contrast with this passage the statements of Apollodorus himself regarding his manner of life in Dem. 45.77.
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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