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But look at the
matter in this way. Hermonax owed these men one hundred staters,1 which he had received from Nausicrates. Aristaechmus was
for sixteen years the guardian and caretaker of these men. Therefore, the money
which Hermonax paid in his own person after these men had come of age, he had
not paid when they were minors; for he certainly did not pay the same debt
twice. Now is there any man so silly as voluntarily to pay money to one not
entitled to it, who demanded it by letter, when he had for so long a time evaded
payment to the rightful owners? For my part, I think there is not.
1 The Athenian stater was a gold coin worth twenty drachmae.
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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