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For Protus,
so long as he thought to get a profit for himself from the grain by going, clung
to it, and chose rather to make his profit, and to render to us what was our
due, than to make common cause with these men, sharing with them the advantage
gained and doing us an injury. But when, after he had come back here and was
negotiating about these matters, grain fell in price, he straightway changed his
mind.
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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