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And more than this, his other daughter would never have been given in marriage; for who would ever have taken to wife a portionless girl from a father who was a debtor to the treasury and without resources? Of such magnitude, you see, were the calamities which Stephanus was bringing upon us all without ever having been wronged by us in any respect. To the jurors, therefore, who at that time decided the matter I am deeply grateful for this at least, that they did not suffer Apollodorus to be utterly ruined, but fixed the amount of the fine at one talent, so that he was able to discharge the debt, although with difficulty. With good reason, then, have we undertaken to pay Stephanus back in the same coin.
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For not only did Stephanus seek in this way to bring us to ruin, but he even wished to drive Apollodorus from his country. He brought a false charge against him that, having once gone to AphidnaAphidna, a deme of the tribe Aeantis. in search of a runaway slave of his, he had there struck a woman, and that she had died of the blow; and he suborned some slaves and got them to give out that they were men of Cyren,An important city in Libya in Northern Africa. and by public proclamation cited Apollodorus before the court of the PalladiumFor the court of the Palladium, see note b on Dem. 47.70. In the case alluded to an ordinary court of five hundred jurors seems to have sat in the place of the Ephetae (see note a on Dem. 43.57.). on a charge of murder.
