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For do you suppose, men of
the jury, that, if the timber had not been the property of Timotheus, and if he
had not begged my father—at the time he introduced Philondas to him,
when he was about to set sail to join the king's generals—to provide
the freight, my father would ever have allowed Philondas to carry the timber
away from the harbor, seeing that it was pledeged as security to him for the
freight, and would not rather have set one of his servants to keep watch and to
receive the price as the timber was sold, until he had recovered his money, if
we suppose that the timber was the property of Philondas and was brought in for
the sake of trade?
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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