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would it not have been better to have
left the money outright in the custody of Callippus, in which case, if he
returned safe, he would have recovered it duly and justly from one who was his
friend and his proxenos, and, if anything had happened to him, he would have
given the money outright as he purposed? Would this, I ask, not have been better
than leaving it in the bank? For my part, I think the former course would have
been fairer and more highminded. However, he is seen to have done nothing of the
kind, so you must regard this as presumptive evidence; no; he gave written and
oral instructions that it was to Cephisiades that the money was to be paid.
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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