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But the lawsuit
only involved a thousand drachmas. True, you will say; but the galling thing is
to be made to pay unfairly, and it was the unfairness of it that caused him to
let the day of payment pass unnoticed.1 But he noticed his mistake the
same day, which is the strongest possible proof that Strato had done him no wrong; and he has not
yet paid a single drachma. But of that later.
1 This, as the scholiast remarks, seems to be obscure. The rankling injustice would be more likely to keep his memory active.
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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