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All other men who borrow for the
outward and homeward voyage, when they are about to set sail from their several
ports, take care to have many witnesses present, and call upon them to attest
that the lender's risk begins from that moment1; but you rely upon the single
testimony of the very man who is your partner in the fraud. You did not bring as
a witness my slave who was in Bosporus
or my partner, nor did you deliver to them the letters which we gave into your
charge, and in which were written instructions that they should keep close watch
on you in whatever you might do!
1 That is, from the moment of sailing.
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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