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A few days afterwards he came up
to me weeping, and told me that the strangers who had lent him the ransom money
were demanding payment of the balance, and that it was stipulated in the
agreement that he should pay it within thirty days or be indebted for double the
amount; that, moreover, no one would either buy or take a mortgage on the farm
adjoining mine, because his brother Arethusius, who is the owner of the slaves
mentioned in the information, would not suffer anyone to buy it or take it on
mortgage, alleging that money was owing him on it already.
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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