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For my own part, I think that the large sum asked as damages
in the suits then brought is a stronger proof for us, that our father was the
victim of a malicious action, than for them, that they were being defrauded of a
large estate. For if he could prove his claims for eighty talents, no man in the
world would have accepted three talents in settlement; whereas anyone, being
defendant in a guardianship suit involving such large sums, would have paid
three talents to buy off the risk and the advantages with which at that time
nature supplied these men. They were orphans and young, and you were ignorant of
their real characters; and everyone says that in your courts these things have
more weight than strong arguments.
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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