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and it was necessary to despatch the
trireme with all speed, and that Alcimachus, the general, had ordered me to
furnish this ship for his own use; the money, therefore, which I had got
together to pay Theophemus, I had to use up for this purpose. So I asked him to
extend the time of payment until I should have sent off the ship. And he
answered me quite readily and guilelessly: “There is no objection to
that,” he said, “but, when you shall have despatched the
ship, also bring the money to me.”
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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