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for he got from my
father all that he asked, and received from the bank money at a time when he was
in great need and when he was in grievous danger of losing his life1; yet he has not only made no return, but even seeks
to rob me of the money which was granted him. And yet, if matters had gone badly
with Timotheus, my father's money, too, was lost, for he lent it without
security and without witnesses; but, if the defendant got off safe, it rested
with him to choose when, having the funds available, he should pay us back.
1 His treasurer, Antimachus, actually was condemned to death, and Timotheus himself was saved from a like fate only by the intercession of influential friends. See Dem. 49.10.
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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