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and I am being
robbed of my mother's dowry, for which I am now bringing suit, although I have
myself given them satisfaction in all the matters in which they made claims upon
me, except some trifling cross-demands which they have maliciously brought
against me on account of this action, as will be perfectly clear to you also;
yet in the course of eleven years I have been unable to obtain from them a
reasonable settlement, and so at length I have had recourse to you for help.
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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