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But apart from all this, suppose, by heaven, men of the jury, that the case
were reversed,—that it was not this man's dead brother who owed me the
money, but that I owed his brother a talent, or eighty minae, or more or less;
do you fancy that this fellow, Lacritus, would employ the same language that he
now so lavishly uses? Or would say that he is not the heir and has nothing to do
with his brother's affairs? Or that he would not exact payment from me
mercilessly, as he has from the others who owed anything to the deceased,
whether in Phaselis or anywhere else?
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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