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while the State took the addition and filled its
treasury. The people of Heraclea, being about to dispatch a fleet of forty ships against
the lords of Bosporus, were at a loss
for the necessary funds. They therefore bought up all the merchants' stock of
corn and oil and wine and other marketable commodities, agreeing to pay at a
future date. The merchants were well satisfied that they had disposed of their
cargoes without breaking bulk; and the people, advancing two months' pay to
their armament, sent along with it a fleet of merchant-vessels laden with the
commodities, every ship being in charge of a public official. When the
expedition reached its goal, the men purchased from these officials all they
needed. In this way, the money was collected before the leaders again paid their
Demosthenes, Against Callippus, section 3 (search)
Lycon, the Heracleote,Heraclea, a colony of the Megarians and
Boeotians on the coast of Bithynia,
on the Black Sea. men of the
jury, of whom the plaintiff himself makes mention, was a customer of my father's
bank like the other merchants, a guest friend of Aristonoüs of
DeceleaDecelea, a deme of the tribe
Hippothontis. and Archebiades of Lamptrae,Lamptrae, a deme of the tribe Erectheïs. and
a man of prudence. This Lycon, when he was about to set out on a voyage to
Libya, reckoned up his account with
my father in the presence of Archebiades and Phrasias, and ordered my father to
pay the money which he left (it was sixteen minae forty drachmae, as I
shall show you very clearly) to Cephisiades, saying that this
Cephisiades was a part<