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“Witnesses[We, Cleon of Sunium, Aristocles of
Paeania, Pamphilus, Niceratus of Acherdus, and Euctemon of Sphetta, on the
occasion when we sailed home from Styra with the entire force, were commanders of triremes
along with Meidias, who is now being prosecuted by Demosthenes, for whom we
appear as witnesses. When the whole fleet was sailing in formation and the
commanders had instructions not to separate until we landed at Athens, Meidias lagged behind the fleet
and loaded his ship with timber and fencing and cattle and other things, and
sailed alone into Peiraeus two days later, and did not join with the other
commanders in bringing the force to land.]”
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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