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Or, when it suits your
purpose to save all of the property of Aphobus, is the land to be worth a talent
only, and are you to hold the house on a mortgage of two thousand drachmae more;
and the marriage-portion being eighty minae, will you claim the right to hold
both the land and the house; or again, when this is not to your interest, is all
to be different: the house is to be worth a talent, because now it is I that
hold it, and what is left of the farm is to be worth not less than two talents,
in order that it may seem that I am wronging Aphobus, not myself being robbed?
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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