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In the first place, he
instructed his own brothers in this art, which you, men of the jury, see to be
evil and unjust—the art of borrowing on your exchange money for a
maritime adventure, and then defrauding the lenders, and refusing to pay them.
How could there be men baser than the one who teaches such an art, or than those
who learn of him? Since, then, he is so clever, and trusts in his power of
speaking and in the one thousand drachmae which he has paid to his teacher,
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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