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To prove
that I am speaking the truth in this, I beg all of you who were senators in the
archonship of Agathocles1 to tell the facts to those who sit
by you, and I will bring before you as witnesses all those whom I have been able
to find who were senators that year.“
Depositions
”I, you see, men of the jury, showed
myself thus reasonable toward these men. And yet the decree ordered the
confiscation of the property, not only of those who had ship's equipment and did
not return it to the state, but also of anyone who, having such equipment,
refused to sell it; such a scarcity of equipment was there in the city at that
time.Read the decree, please.“
Decree
”
1 This was in 356 B.C.
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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