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Bearing all
these facts in mind, therefore, and hearing from those who had had dealings with
Theophemus what sort of a man he was in matters where his interests were
involved, and failing to recover the equipment from him, I approached the
despatching board and the senate, stating that Theophemus would not return to me
the equipment for which he was accountable by judgement of the court. And the
other trierarchs also approached the senate, all those who had not been able to
recover the equipment from the persons bound to produce it. And after much
argument the senate answered by a decree which the clerk shall read to you,
instructing us to recover what was due in whatever way we could.“
Decree
”
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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