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I have no desire
to bring a baseless and malicious charge; but I have filed this inventory of
property because I have suffered wrong and indignity from these men and
therefore thought it my duty to avenge myself upon them. Of this you will find
convincing proof, men of the jury, in the amount of the valuation, and in my
having filed the information in my own name. For, I take it, if I had wished to
bring a malicious suit, I should not have listed slaves worth two minae and a
half, the sum at which the claimant himself has fixed their value, and myself
have run the risk of losing a thousand drachmae, and forfeiting the right ever
again to indict anyone on my own behalf. Nor, again, was I so lacking in
resources or in friends as to be unable to find some one to file the
information;
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