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In this he failed, for
our agent,1 who was on board, opposed the plan, and
promised the sailors large rewards if they should bring the ship safe into port.
The ship safely brought to Cephallenia, thanks chiefly to the gods, and after
them to the bravery of the seamen. Again after this he schemed together with the
Massaliotes, the fellow-countrymen of Hegestratus, to prevent the vessel from
completing her voyage to Athens,
saying that he himself was from Massalia; that the money came from thence; and that the
shipowner and the lenders were Massaliotes.
1 Presumably Protus, who seems to have sailed as supercargo.
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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