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When this same woman, who had been such a benefactress,
complained to him, seeing that he was giving himself airs and making a great
show here among you, and when she reminded him of her services and claimed some
recompense, on the first occasion he cuffed her and threatened her and turned
her out of his house. But when she persisted and, woman-like, went about among
her acquaintance with complaints of his conduct, he seized her with his own
hands and dragged her off to the auction-room at the aliens' registry, and if
her tax had not happened to be duly paid, she would have been put up for sale,
thanks to this man who owed his safety to her.
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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