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[63]
If, then, he makes use of this defence,
that he was not in Athens at the time when he was debited with the cost of the
bowls, make this reply to him: “You received them, when here, and
since you did not return them, and were abroad, and the bowls which the
depositor claimed were not there, you were debited with their value, that sum,
namely, which was paid for the bowls.”
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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