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Nor are these the only proofs
which make it easy to see that Aphobus continued to live with his wife and to
possess the land up to the time when the suit was begun; it is plain also from
the way in which he dealt with the land after judgement was given against him.
For, as though the property had not been mortgaged, but was to belong to me
according to the court's decision, he made off with everything that could be
carried away—the produce, and all the farm implements, except the
storage-tanks.1 What he could not take
away he necessarily left behind, so that Onetor was now at liberty to lay claim
merely to the bare land.
1 These were underground, as appears from the phrase πλὴν τῶν ἐγγείων in Dem. 30.30.
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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