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Now, so little danger is there of his
depriving our state of this gift, that he has opened another depot at Theudosia,
which our merchants say is not at all inferior to the Bosporus,1 and there, too, he has
granted us the same exemption. I omit much that might be said about the other
benefits conferred upon you by this prince and also by his ancestors, but the
year before last, when there was a universal shortage of grain, he not only sent
enough for your needs, but such a quantity in addition that Callisthenes had a
surplus of fifteen talents of silver to dispose of.2
1 Here not the district, but the capital, Panticapaeum, the modern Kertch. Sixty miles west lies Theudosia （Kaffa）, an ancient colony of Miletus.
2 Callisthenes, asσιτώνηςor Food Controller （an office held by Demosthenes himself,Dem. 18.248）, received so much corn from Leucon that, after supplying the needs of Athens, he was able to make 16 talents for the treasury by selling the surplus elsewhere.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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