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For,
when he introduced him, the timber had not yet come, but Philondas was about to
make the journey to fetch it; when, however, he came back, bringing the timber,
the defendant was abroad, but Philondas received the freight for the timber
according to the defendant's orders, and the timber was delivered to the
defendant's house in Peiraeus. That Timotheus was not well provided with funds
when he sailed from Athens is already known to all of you to whom his estate was
mortgaged, and whom he is now seeking to defraud.However, to prove that he borrowed money from some of our citizens without
security, since he had no equivalent security to give, please read the
deposition.“
Deposition
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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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