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Well, how
does it go on? “To nominate sureties on an undertaking to pay in full
the amount in which he was indebted.” Here again he has stolen away
the right of the sacred funds to a tenfold payment, and one-half of the claim of
the civil treasury, in cases where double payment is required by law. And how
does he manage that? By writing “the amount” instead of
“the penalty,” and “in which he was
indebted” instead of “which has accrued.”
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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