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but the man who had wickedly brought me to that pass I
accounted an enemy with whom I could make no terms. When I discovered that he
had defrauded the whole commonwealth in the collection of the property-tax and
in the manufacture of processional utensils, and that he held and refused to
restore a great deal of money belonging to the Goddess, the Heroes, and the
State, I proceeded against him with the aid of Euctemon, thinking it a favorable
opportunity for doing the State a service, and at the same time getting
satisfaction for the wrongs I had suffered. My purpose would naturally be that I
should accomplish my desire, and that he should get his deserts.
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