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But how can it
be that he has received as much as I, one may ask, if in his case the jewelry
and the apparel, to the value of a thousand drachmae, were reckoned in the forty
minae, while to me the ten minae were paid separately and in addition? This is
precisely what I am going to explain. For Spudias, men of the jury, received his
wife from Leocrates with the jewelry and apparel on which Polyeuctus set a value
to Leocrates of more than a thousand drachmae, while in my case, if you set what
was sent to me over and above the marriage portion—all that I have in
my possession—over against what was given to Spudias, you will find
them practically equal over and above what was reckoned in the thousand
drachmae;
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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