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Compassion for Androtion,
Glaucetes, and Melanopus, because they have to repay stolen money, shows a
temper quite different from your refusal of compassion to everyone of the many
persons here present, and of all the other citizens, whose houses you invaded
with police-magistrates, receivers, and clerks at your heels; with demolishing
their front-doors, dragging their bed-clothes from under them, and levying
distraint on a man's maidservant, if he was living with her; and that is how you
and Androtion were employed for a whole twelve-month.
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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