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Or, am I, who have served
for my own term and that of my colleague, to have performed extra service as
trierarch for you and your associate, and are you, who have incurred no expense,
to refuse either to take over the ship and serve your own term, or to reimburse
me for the expenses I have borne?” When I said this, he answered that
I was romancing. Then the general ordered me to go on board my ship and put to
sea with him.
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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