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Now what does the agreement say, and to what port does it
require you to sail? From Athens to Egypt and from Egypt
to Athens; and in default of your so
doing, it requires you to pay double the amount. If you have done this, you have
committed no wrong; but if you have not done it, and have not brought your ship
back to Athens, it is proper that
you should suffer the penalty provided by the agreement; for this requirement
was imposed upon you, not by some other person, but by yourself. Show, then, to
the jury one or the other of two things—that our agreement is not
valid, or that you are not required to do everything in accordance with it.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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