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In the first place it stands written that they borrowed from us
thirty minae on three thousand jars1 of wine,
giving out that they possessed security for thirty minae more, so that the price
of the wine would amount to a talent of money, including the expenses to be
incurred in the stowage of the wine; and that these three thousand jars were to
be conveyed to Pontus in the twenty-oared ship, of which Hyblesius was owner.
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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