[23] But you cannot show it, for you have learned secrecy and evasion and how to do everything to escape rendering service to your fellow-citizens here. But I will show that I have expended large sums—I, who inherited that slender estate from my father.
(To the clerk.)
Now read me first that law which declares that no mining property shall be included in the inventory, and the challenge and then the depositions proving that this fellow Phaenippus has inherited two estates that performed public services.The Law. The Challenge. The Depositions
Against Phaenippus. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.
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