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For why, pray, was it that, when you had
hired other bottoms, as you say, you did not tranship the entire cargo of your
vessel, but left the grain there in Rhodes? Because, men of the jury, it was to their interest to
sell the grain in Rhodes; for they
heard that the price had fallen here in Athens, but they shipped to you the other goods, from which
they hoped to make a profit. When, then, Dionysodorus, you talk about the
chartering of the vessels, you give proof, not that your ship was disabled, but
that it was to your advantage to do so.
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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