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Yet my father left to each of us, my brother
and myself, an estate of forty-five minae merely, on which it is not easy to
live, while your fathers were possessed of such wealth that each of them set up
a tripod in honor of choregic victories at the Dionysia. And I do not begrudge
them this, for it is the duty of the wealthy to render service to the state. Do
you, therefore, show that you have expended one single copper coin on the
state—you, who have inherited two estates which performed public
services.
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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