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When I heard this I was touched with
compassion for Nicostratus on account of his ill-fortune, and at once sent his
brother Deinon to fetch him, giving him three hundred drachmae for his journey.
When Nicostratus got home, he came at once to me, embraced me, thanked me for
giving his brother money for his journey, bewailed his own unhappy lot, and,
while complaining of his own relatives, begged me to succor him, just as in time
past I had been a true friend to him. Then he wept, and told me that he had been
ransomed for twenty-six minae, and urged me to contribute something toward the
cost of his redemption.
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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