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Demosthenes, Against Zenothemis, section 5 (search)
But immediately on getting
the money, they sent it home to Massalia, and put nothing on board the ship. The agreement
being, as is usual in all such cases, that the money was to be paid back if the
ship reached port safely, they laid a plot to sink the ship, that so they might
defraud their creditors. Hegestratus, accordingly, when they were two or three
days' voyage from land, went down by night into the hold of the vessel, and
began to cut a hole in the ship's bottom, while Zenothemis, as though knowing
nothing about it, remained on deck with the rest of the passengers. When the
noise was heard, those on the vessel saw that something wrong was going on in
the hold, and rushed down to bear aid.
Demosthenes, Against Zenothemis, section 8 (search)
In this he failed, for
our agent,Presumably Protus, who seems to have
sailed as supercargo. who was on board, opposed the plan, and
promised the sailors large rewards if they should bring the ship safe into port.
The ship safely brought to Cephallenia, thanks chiefly to the gods, and after
them to the bravery of the seamen. Again after this he schemed together with the
Massaliotes, the fellow-countrymen of Hegestratus, to prevent the vessel from
completing her voyage to Athens,
saying that he himself was from Massalia; that the money came from thence; and that the
shipowner and the lenders were Massaliotes.