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“What are you saying, fellow?”
exclaimed Protus immediately. （This was the name of the man who
imported the grain, and who owed us the money.） “Is it you
who have given money to Hegestratus, you who aided him to deceive the others,
that he might borrow of them? Would you who often heard him say that those who
ventured their money would lose it, would you, I say, hearing this, have
ventured yours?” “Yes,” said he impudently.
“Well, then,” interrupted one of those present,
“if what you say is never so true, your partner and fellow-countryman,
Hegestratus, has taken you in, it appears, and for that has passed sentence of
death upon himself, and is dead.”
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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