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After this, men
of Athens, the defendant was left in
Bosporus, while Lampis put to sea,
and was shipwrecked not far from the port; for although his ship was already
overloaded, as we learn, he took on an additional deck-load of one thousand
hides, which proved the cause of the loss of the vessel. He himself made his
escape in the boat with the rest of Dio's servants, but he lost more than
thirty1 lives
besides the cargo. There was much mourning in Bosporus when they learned of the loss of the ship, and
everybody deemed this Phormio lucky in that he had not sailed with the others,
nor put any goods on board the ship. The same story was told by the others and
by Phormio himself.Read me, please, these
depositions.“
Depositions
”
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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