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Therippides, however, who had charge of the slaves for seven years, has
submitted an account of eleven minae a year, four minae a year less than it
should have been; and the defendant who had charge of the business at the first
for two years shows no profit whatever, but says sometimes that the factory was
idle, and sometimes that he was not himself the manager, but that the foreman,
Milyas, a freedman of ours, had
charge of it, and that I should look for an accounting from him. If he persists
even now in making any of these statements he will easily be convicted of
falsehood.
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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