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Such is the
shamelessness of these men. Now, men of the jury, take thought in your own
minds, whether you ever knew or heard of any people importing wine by way of
trade from Pontus to Athens, and especially Coan wine. The very opposite is, of
course, the case. Wine is carried to Pontus from places around us, from
Peparethus, and Cos, and Thasos1 and Mendê, and
from all sorts of other places; whereas the things imported here from Pontus are
quite different.
1 Peparethus, Cos, and Thasos were all islands in the Aegean.
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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