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Our claims in the matter,
therefore, are few and easy to be remembered. We lent this fellow Dionysodorus
and his partner three thousand drachmae for a voyage from Athens to Egypt and from Egypt
to Athens; we have not received
either principal or interest, but they have kept our money and had the use of it
for two years; they have not even to this day brought the ship back to your
port, nor produced it plain to see. The agreement, however, declares, that if
they fail to deliver up the ship plain to see they shall pay double the amount,
and that the money may be recovered from either one or both of them.
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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