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However, to begin with, I
must remind you of dates, and of the conjuncture at which he proposed his new
law; and indeed it will be apparent that he was impertinently laughing in your
faces. It was the month of Scirophorion when those men lost the action they
brought against Euctemon. Then they hired this man, and, without making the
least preparation to satisfy your claim, they put up some newsmongers to tell
people in the market-place that they were ready to pay the bare amount of the
debt, but that they really could not afford to pay it twice over.1
1 See Dem. 24.82 below.
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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