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declared that it was her property, mortgaged to secure her marriage portion; she
said to them also, “You have the fifty sheep, the serving boy, and the
shepherd, whose value is in excess of the amount of your judgement”
（for one of the neighbors knocked at the door and told her
this）. Furthermore she told them that the money was lying at the bank
for them, for she had heard me say so. “And, if you will wait
here,” she said, “or if one of you will go after him, you
shall take the money back with you at once; but let the furniture alone, and do
not carry off anything that is mine—especially since you have the full
value of your judgement.”
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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