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“They did not let our
property,” they will perhaps say. No; for your uncle Xenopeithes did
not want it let, but, after Nicidas had denounced him for this,1 induced the jurors to allow him to administer it; and this
everybody knows. “They robbed us of huge sums.” Well, for
this you have received from them the damages upon which you agreed; and, I take
it, you are not entitled to recover it again from me.
1 If a guardian did not fulfil the duties imposed by his position, any citizen might charge him before the archon with breach of trust.
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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