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Nay, for two years now he has been using our money for
his profit, keeping the loan and the trade and the ship that was mortgaged to
us, and notwithstanding this he has come into your court, intending plainly to
get us fined with the sixth part of the damages,1 and to put us in prison,2 besides robbing us of our
money. We therefore, men of Athens,
beg and implore you one and all to come to our aid, if you find that we are
being wronged. But first I want to explain to you how the loan was contracted;
for thus it will be easiest for you also to follow the case.
1 For this fine, the ἐπωβελία, imposed upon the plaintiff, he failed to obtain a fifth of the votes, see note on p. 50 of vol. 1.
2 Properly the “lodging.” The same euphemism occurs in Dem. 32.29.
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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