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Dionysodorus, however, claims that he is doing no wrong
because of this very fact, since he is not bound to pay the interest in its
entirety inasmuch as the ship did not complete her voyage to Peiraeus. But what
does the agreement say? By Zeus it is not at all what you say, Dionysodorus. No;
it declares that if you do not pay both the principal and interest, or if you
fail to present the security, plain to see and unimpaired, or if in any other
respect you violate the agreement, you are required to pay double the
amount.Read, please, that clause of the
agreement.“StatementAnd if they shall not produce the security, plain to
see and unimpaired, or if in any respect they shall violate the agreement,
they shall pay double the amount.”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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