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The outcome was that Parmeniscus, the
defendant's partner, when he had received the letter sent by him and had learned
the price of grain prevailing here, discharged his cargo of grain at Rhodes and sold it there in defiance of the
agreement, men of the jury, and of the penalties to which they had of their own
will bound themselves, in case they should commit any breach of the agreement,
and in contempt also of your laws which ordain that shipowners and supercargoes
shall sail to the port to which they have agreed to sail or else be liable to
the severest penalties.
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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