[6]
Then I sealed the
buildings, and bade Phaenippus to proceed to my property. After this I asked him
where his threshed grain was, for by the gods and goddesses, men of the jury,
there were two threshing-floors there, each one of nearly a plethron in
extent.1 He
answered me that some of the grain had been sold, and that some was stored
within.
1 That is, in diameter. The speaker evidently expected to find large quantities of threshed grain, owing to the size of the threshing floors. The plethron was about 100 feet.
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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