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When he had no longer need of ships of war, he put on board my vessel Eucinus
of Pallenê,1 as commander, and, enjoining upon him to give the sailors
money every day, ordered me to sail for home. When, then, on our homeward voyage
we were in Tenedos, and Lucinus, despite the orders given him by Timomachus, was
furnishing no money for sustenance to the sailors （he said he had none,
but should get some from Mytilenê）, and the men had nothing
with which to buy provisions, and without food could not have continued rowing,
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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