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Nevertheless,
although it is so plain that by his mother's oath and the simplicity of him who
tendered the oath to her, he has obtained a father and established his birth in
the tribe Acamantis, instead of Hippothontis, the defendant Boeotus is not
content with this, but has actually entered two or three suits against me for
money, in addition to the malicious and baseless actions which he brought
against me before. And yet I think you all know what sort of a man of business
my father was.1
1 He was so poor a man of business that after his death his heirs had to pay off indebtedness incurred by him.
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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