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What, then, is the reason for this? And what can have induced the fellow to
come here and commence this suit? I will tell you, men of the jury, though
Heaven knows it gives me pain to do so; but I must. There exists in the Peiraeus
a gang of scoundrels1 closely
leagued with one another.
1 For the Greek phrase compare Dem. 37.39, Dem. 39.2, and Dem. 40.9
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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