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It was natural that they should make this
attempt. Under the former statutes they might discharge their public services in
groups of sixteen, spending little or nothing themselves, but grinding down the
needy citizens, whereas by my statute they had to return the full assessment
according to their means, and a man who was formerly one of sixteen contributors
to a single trireme—for they were dropping the term trierarch and
calling themselves contributors-might have to furnish two complete vessels. They
offered any amount to get the new rules abrogated and escape their just
obligation.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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