[3]
Now
Dionysodorus here does neither the one nor the other, but has come to such a
pitch of audacity, that although he borrowed from us three thousand drachmae
upon his ship on the condition that it should sail back to Athens, and although we ought to have got
back our money in the harvest-season of last year, he took his ship to
Rhodes and there unladed his cargo
and sold it in defiance of the contract and of your laws1; and from
Rhodes again he despatched his ship
to Egypt, and from thence back to
Rhodes, and to us who lent our
money at Athens he has up to this
day neither paid back our money nor produced to us our security.
1 Athenian dealers were allowed to ship grain only to Athens, not to foreign ports; cf. Dem. 56.10 infra.
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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