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After this Protus and I challenged him to go
before the Syracusan authorities, and, if it should be shown that Protus had
bought the grain, that the customs duties were recorded in his name, and that it
was he who had paid the price, we demanded that Zenothemis be punished as a
rascal; if this were not proved, we agreed that he should receive back all he
had expended and a talent in addition and that we would relinquish our claim to
the grain. Despite this challenge and all that Protus and I could say, we made
no progress, but I had to choose either to put Zenothemis out, or to lose my
property which had been brought safe to port and was there before my eyes.
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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