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When this
decree had been passed, the magistrates chose by lot those who owed the ship's
equipment to the state and handed over their names, and the overseers of the
dockyards passed on the list to the trierarchs who were then about to sail, and
to the overseers of the navy-boards. The law of Periander1 forced us and laid command upon us to
receive the list of those who owed equipment to the state,—I mean the
law in accordance with which the navy-boards were constituted. And besides this
another decree of the people compelled them to assign to us the several debtors
that we might recover from each man his proportionate amount.
1 This law was passed in 538-537 B.C.
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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