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Yes, says he, but if one commit other
wrongs concerning mines, for these, too, actions may be brought. Certainly,
Pantaenetus; but what are these? If one smokes out another, if one makes an
armed attack, if one makes cuttings which encroach upon another's workings.
These are the other cases; but I, of course, have done nothing of this sort to
you, unless you hold that people who seek to recover what they had risked in a
loan to you are making an armed attack. If you hold that view, you have mining
suits against all those who risk their own money.
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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