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Consider now for yourselves whether in your judgement there
could be an orator, or sophist or magician so wondrously clever in speaking as
by means of this testimony to convince any man on earth that Aphobus is in
possession of the marriage-portion of the speaker's mother. What in heaven's
name would he say? “Aphobus has admitted that Milyas is a freeman.” And why on
that account is he any the more in possession of the marriage-portion? The
statement would surely not seem to prove it.
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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