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And more than this, his other
daughter would never have been given in marriage; for who would ever have taken
to wife a portionless girl from a father who was a debtor to the treasury and
without resources? Of such magnitude, you see, were the calamities which
Stephanus was bringing upon us all without ever having been wronged by us in any
respect. To the jurors, therefore, who at that time decided the matter I am
deeply grateful for this at least, that they did not suffer Apollodorus to be
utterly ruined, but fixed the amount of the fine at one talent, so that he was
able to discharge the debt, although with difficulty. With good reason, then,
have we undertaken to pay Stephanus back in the same coin.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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