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With reference to the special plea my argument is a brief one. For even the defendants do not absolutely deny that a contract was made on your exchange1; but they claim that there exists no longer any obligation on their part due to the contract, for they have done nothing that contravenes the terms of the agreement.

1 The word rendered “exchange” or “market,” may well designate merely the Peiraeus, which was in a very real sense the ἐμπόριον of Athens.

Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.

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