[23]
But I shall now endeavor
to show you that he has brought a suit for such heavy damages against me without
having suffered any loss or damage worthy of mention. Before they undertook this
malicious action against me, my mother and theirs were intimate friends and used
to visit one another, as was natural, since both lived in the country and were
neighbors, and since, furthermore, their husbands had been friends while they
lived.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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