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Well, my mother went to see theirs, and
the latter told her with weeping what had happened, and showed her the effects;
this, men of the jury, is the way in which I learned all the facts. And I am
telling you just what I heard from my mother;—as I speak the truth, so
may many blessings be mine; if I am lying, may the opposite befall me. She
averred that she saw, and heard from their mother, that some of the barley got
wet （she saw them drying it）, but not so much as three
medimni,1 and about
half a medimnus of wheat flour; also, she said, a jar of olive oil had tilted
over, but had not been damaged.
1 The medimnus was a standard measure of grain, containing approximately a bushel and a half.
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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