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Hearing this, Nicostratus thanked me, and bade me to proceed with the matter
with all speed before the expiration of the days in the course of which he said
he must pay the ransom. Accordingly I mortgaged my lodging-house for sixteen
minae, to Arcesas of Pambotadae,1 whom Nicostratus himself
introduced to me, and he lent me the money at the interest rate of eight obols a
month for each mina.2 But, when Nicostratus had got the money, so far from
showing any gratitude for what I had done for him, he immediately began to lay a
plot against me to rob me of my money and become my enemy, in order that I might
be at a loss how to deal with the matter, since I was young and without
experience in affairs, and might not exact from him the sum for which the
lodging-house had been mortgaged, but might forgive him the debt.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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