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What else could we have done? Not one of
us partners had as yet any idea that you would ever declare the grain to be this
man's property—grain which he tried to induce the sailors to abandon,
that it might be lost by the sinking of the ship. This fact is the strongest
proof that none of it belonged to him; for who would have tried to induce those
who were attempting to save it to abandon grain which belonged to himself? Or
who would not have accepted the challenge and have sailed to Sicily, where these matters might have been
clearly proved?
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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