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sooner had he set out, and was sailing around the Argolic gulf, than his ship
was captured by pirate vessels and his goods taken to Argos, while he himself was shot down by an
arrow, and met his death. Immediately after this mischance this man Callippus
came to the bank, and asked whether they knew Lycon, the Heracleote. Phormion,
who is here present, answered that they knew him. “Was he a customer
of yours?” “He was,” said Phormion, “but
why do you ask?” “Why?” said he, “I will
tell you. He is dead, and, as it happens, I am proxenos1 of
the Heracleotes. I demand therefore that you show me your books, that I may know
whether he has left any money; for I must of necessity look after the affairs of
all the men of Heraclea.”
1 The proxenos was sort of consular agent, empowered to act in the interest of his country and his countryman in a foreign state.
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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