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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...The defendant, like your own father, made his money by faithful and honest service, by personal integrity of character, and by that good credit and fair fame which in the commercial world is the best kind of capital. Again, if you claim the defendant's property on the ground that he was once your father's slave, then Antimachus, a surviving son of your father's former master, might go still further, and claim your own estate and tlie defendant's too; yet, though now in a humble position, far below his merits and his proper rank, he does not go to law with them, because they have money to spend while lie is in destitution. Instead of making the most of the good fortune by which your father and the defendant alike received the rights of freedom and citizenship, you are heartless enough to cast contumely on yourself and your parents, and on Athens too, for granting tier privileges to people like yourself; you are senseless enough to forget that, by insisting that the defendant's former servitude should not be brought up against him, we are really speaking on your side and defending your men position. The rule, that you lay down to the detriment of the defendant, can as easily be advanced against yourself by the house to which your father was once a slave. 43. wv = we pi Totiruv a. TtbBev--KiKTrrrai. In Or. 45 § 80, Apollodorus unfairly says of Phormion, cl rjv dlKaios, rrivns ay rjv ra Tov SarT&rov Stoucf/oas....Had I dragged you off to prison as a thief caught in the act, with your present pro yjp-rSTbv? But the position of Sb(ai and elvai. makes against this construction. Cf. Aesch. Theb. 592 oi yap Sokciv flpurroj dXX eai diei. It is the combination of 86ai fCkepybv and elvai fyqarbv that is insisted on, because a forger, for...
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