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For when he failed in his scheme to
destroy the vessel, not being able to pay back their money to his
creditors—how could he pay, when at the start he had put nothing on
board?—he lays claim to my goods, and declares that he has lent money
to Hegestratus on the security of the grain which our agent sailing with him had
purchased. The creditors, who had been deceived in the first instance, seeing
that instead of receiving their money, they have a scoundrel as their debtor and
nothing more, and hoping that, if you are imposed upon by Zenothemis, they may
recover their own out of my property, are forced to make common cause with him
in order to protect their own interests, although they know him to be making
these false charges against me.
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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