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However, since it was admitted by Aphobus himself that my father on his
death-bed gave to each of these men such large sums of money, the jurymen at the
former trial considered these admissions to be a proof of the size of the
estate. For when a man gave out of his estate four talents and three thousand
drachmae by way of marriage-portion and legacy, it was plain that he took these
sums, not from a small estate, but from one （bequeathed to me）
of more than double this amount.
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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