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This is an important point, men
of Athens. Just observe the
extravagance of his statement. The ship was disabled, so he says, and for this
reason he brought her into the port of Rhodes. Well, then, after that she was repaired and became fit
for sea. Why, then, my good fellow, did you send her off to Egypt and to other ports, but have never up to
this day sent her back to Athens, to
us your creditors, to whom the agreement requires you to produce the ship, plain
to see and unimpaired, and that too although we made demand upon you again and
again and challenged you to do so?
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