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At all events, to make a long story short, she finally sent for me again later and said that after a long talk with Athenogenes she had with difficulty managed to persuade him to release Midas and both his sons for me for forty minas.1 She told me to produce the money as quickly as I could before Athenogenes changed his mind on any point.
1 This was a high price for three slaves. Demosthenes tells us that the total cost of his father's fifty-two slaves （thirty-two swordsmiths and twenty couchmakers） was 230 minas, i.e., an average of just under eight pounds per head. （Dem. 27. 9.）
Hyperides. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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