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For no sooner had Theopompus got the
award of the estate of Hagnias in the manner which you have heard, than he at
once gave proof that he knew well that he was in possession of what in no sense
belonged to him. The thing which was of the greatest value on the farms
belonging to Hagnias, and which was most admired by the neighbors and by
everybody else, was the olive trees. These they dug up and rooted out, more than
a thousand trees, from which a large quantity of oil was produced. These trees
our opponents rooted out and sold, and received a huge sum of money. And they
did this while the estate of Hagnias was still subject to adjudication in
accordance with the very law which had permitted them to cite the mother of this
boy here.
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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