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In the first place, when he says that the ship was disabled, I think
it is plain to you all that he is lying. For if his ship had met with this
mishap, she would neither have got safely to Rhodes nor have been fit for sailing afterwards. But in fact it
is plain that she did get safe to Rhodes and was sent back from thence to Egypt, and that at the present time she is
still sailing everywhere except to Athens. And yet is it not outrageous that, when he has to bring
his ship back to the port of Athens,
he says she was disabled, but when he wants to unlade his grain at Rhodes, then that same ship is seen to be
seaworthy?
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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