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Read what
follows.“ComplaintAnd after I had become a debtor to the state, having
stationed his slave Antigenes in my mining property at Thrasyllus,1 in full control of my works,
although I forbade him . . .”Stop
reading. In all this he will again be convicted of falsehood by the facts
themselves; for he has written in the complaint that I stationed the slave and
that he forbade me. But this was impossible in the case of one who was not in
the country. Neither did I station anyone, seeing that I was in Pontus, nor did
he forbid a man who was not in Athens.
1 A site in Maroneia, so called from a monument of Thrasyllus which stood there.
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