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When he came,
then, to Bosporus, having letters from
me, which I had given him to deliver to my slave, who was spending the winter
there, and to a partner of mine,—in which letter I had stated the sum
which I had lent and the security, and bade them, as soon as the goods should be
unshipped, to inspect them and keep an eye on them,—the fellow did not
deliver to them the letters which he had received from me, in order that they
might know nothing of what he was doing; and, finding that business in
Bosporus was bad owing to the war
which had broken out between Paerisades1 and the Scythian,
and that there was no market for the goods which he had brought, he was in great
perplexity; for his creditors, who had lent him money for the outward voyage,
were pressing him for payment.
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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