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As to
the ship's equipment, moreover, all, that is, which the state is bound to supply
to the trierarchs, I purchased it with my own resources and took nothing from
the public stores, while these men used equipment of yours and spent none of
their own money for this purpose. And surely they cannot say either that they
got their ship ready for trial before I did mine; for mine was manned before
they had so much as touched theirs, and you all saw the ship being tested.
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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