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I shall make of
you all a just and reasonable request: first, that you listen to my words with
goodwill, and, secondly, that if you think that I am being wronged and made
defendant in a suit which has no valid basis, you render me the succor which is
my due. The damages claimed in the action are, as you have heard, thirty minae;
but the sum for which we are really being sued is four talents. For there are
two of them, and they have entered four suits against us, all for a like amount,
each for three thousand drachmae damages;1 and now on a complaint for
thirty minae we are brought to trial for so large a sum.
1 From this it is plain that each of the two claimants brought suit against each of the four sons of Aristaechmus. This makes eight suits for thirty minae each, so that the total amount is four talents.
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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