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However, to prove that we resold the property at your request, and on the same terms as those upon which we ourselves bought it, read the deposition.
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You are yourself also a witness to this; for what we purchased for one hundred and five minae, this you afterward sold for three talents and twenty-six hundred drachmae. And yet who, if he had youThe title was not vested in Pantaenetus, but in the other claimants to whom it had been transferred at his request. as one to complete a final sale, would have given a single drachma?
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To prove that I speak the truth in this, call, please, the witnesses who establish the facts.
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He has, then, received the sum which he agreed to take for his property,—he even begged me that I should assume the position of vendor for the sum which I had advanced—yet this same man sues me for two talents more. And the rest of the charges are even more outrageous.
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Read, please, the remainder of the complaint.
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Here he brings against me in one mass a host of dreadful charges; for he accuses me of assault and battery, outrage, and of violent wrongs even against heiresses.See Dem. 37.45; and compare the oration against Meidias (Dem. 21.79). But for each of these wrongdoings actions are separate; they do not come before the same magistrates and they are not for the recovery of the same penalties. Assault and battery and crimes of violence come before the FortyThe Forty were circuit judges.; cases of outrage before the Thesmothetae; and all crimes against heiresses before the Archon.That is, the chief archon. And the laws grant the filing of pleas to bar action also in case of charges brought before magistrates who have not due competency.
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Read them this law.
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