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The sequel too, men of Athens, is worth hearing. What you have just heard from
Lycurgus is serious, or, rather, impossible to exaggerate, but the rest will be
found to rival it and to be of the same character. Not content with abandoning
his father in prison when he quitted Eretria, as you have heard from Phaedrus, this unnatural
ruffian refused to bury him when he died, and would not refund the expenses to
those who did bury him, but actually brought a law-suit against them.
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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