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And I, who might well be angry at their
having made the road narrower and raised its level, keep quiet, while these men
have such superabundance of audacity, it seems, that they even bring malicious
suits against those whom they have injured! But surely, Callicles, if you have
the right to enclose your land, we too had the right to enclose ours. And if my
father wronged you by enclosing his, you are now wronging me by thus enclosing
yours.
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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