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He says that the agreement bids him pay
back the money, “when the ship reaches port in safety.” Yes,
and it bids you also to put on board the ship the goods purchased, or else to
pay a fine of five thousand drachmae. You ignore this clause in the agreement,
but after having from the first violated its provisions by failing to put the
goods on board, you raise a dispute about a single phrase in it, though you have
by your own act rendered it null and void. For when you state that you did not
put the goods on board in Bosporus, but
paid the cash to the shipowner, why do you still go on talking about the ship?
For you have had no share in the risk, since you put nothing on board.
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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