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I bid adieu
to this fellow and appeal to those to whom my father left me as my helpers and
friends—to you, men of the jury. And I beg and entreat and implore
you, do not suffer my daughters and myself through our poverty to become a
source of malicious joy to my own slaves and to his flatterers. My father gave
you a thousand shields and made himself serviceable to you in many ways, and
five times served as trierarch, voluntarily equipping the ships and manning them
at his own expense. I remind you of this, not because I consider that you are
under obligation to me—for it is I that am under obligation to
you,—but in order that I may not suffer unworthy treatment without
your knowing it. For that would not be a credit to you any more than to me.
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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