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You, on your part, do not act thus even toward those who sin
against you: when you give judgement against any of them, you do not take away
all that they have, but in pity for their wives and children you leave something
even to these. But these men are so different from you that, although they had
received legacies from us to make them administer their trust faithfully, they
have done us these outrageous wrongs. They felt no touch of shame for their
ruthlessness toward my sister, who, though my father left two talents as the
dowry due her, will now get no fitting portion. Nay, they have recked nothing of
kinship, as though they had been left to us, not as friends and kinsfolk, but as
bitterest enemies.
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