Demosthenes, Against Aphobus II, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 21

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[21] She now thinks that she is to welcome me home after I have won a just verdict from you, and that my sister will not be portionless. But, if you decide adversely (which may heaven forfend) what, think you, will be her anguish of soul when she sees me not only robbed of my patrimony, but disenfranchised as well, and has no hope that my sister will find an establishment that befits her station because of the poverty that will be ours?

Against Aphobus II. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1936.

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Against Aphobus II (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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κατὰ Ἀφόβου β΄ Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 21 focus

[21] ἣ νῦν μὲν οἴεται τυχόντα με τῶν δικαίων παρʼ ὑμῖν ὑποδέξεσθαι καὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν ἐκδώσειν· εἰ δʼ ὑμεῖς ἄλλο τι γνώσεσθε, ὃ μὴ γένοιτο, τίνʼ οἴεσθʼ αὐτὴν ψυχὴν ἕξειν, ὅταν ἐμὲ μὲν ἴδῃ μὴ μόνον τῶν πατρῴων ἀπεστερημένον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς ἠτιμωμένον, περὶ δὲ τῆς ἀδελφῆς μηδʼ ἐλπίδʼ ἔχουσαν ὡς τεύξεταί τινος τῶν προσηκόντων διὰ τὴν ἐσομένην ἀπορίαν;

Demosthenes Against Aphobus II 21

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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