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He had borrowed the money from the wife
of Polyeuctus, and there are papers which that lady left behind at her death,
and the lady's brothers are witnesses, for they were present at all times and
questioned her on every point, that there might be no unpleasantness between us.
It is, then, an outrageous and cruel thing, men of the jury, when I on my part,
for everything which I either bought from Polyeuctus during his lifetime or
received from his wife, have duly paid the price and the interest as well, and
am now bringing into the general account everything which I owed,
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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