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For consider;
will anyone propose a tax of one per cent now? Then we get sixty talents. Or
double it and make it two per cent? Still only a hundred and twenty talents. And
what is that to the twelve hundred camels laden, as our friends here tell us,
with the King's treasure? Then would you have me assume that we shall contribute
a twelfth of your wealth, or five hundred talents? But you would not submit to
such a tax, nor if you paid up, would the money be sufficient for the war.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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