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Then—the most outrageous thing of all—suppose you had in
reality paid the marriage-portion (which you have not paid),
whose fault was it? Was it not yours? For you paid it on the security of my
property. Was it not ten full years before he became your brother-in-law that
Aphobus took possession of my estate for which judgement has been rendered
against him? And was it right for you to recover the whole amount, while I, who
had been awarded damages against him, I, an orphan who had been wronged and
robbed of a marriage-portion that was genuine, I who with better right than any
other man should have been exempted from the risk of having to pay costs,1 should be forced to suffer thus, and should
have recovered nothing whatever, though ready to meet any of your2 proposals, had you been willing to do anything that
justice required?
1 See note a on Dem. 27.67
2 The pronoun is in the plural and refers to Onetor and Aphobus.
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