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But immediately on getting
the money, they sent it home to Massalia, and put nothing on board the ship. The agreement
being, as is usual in all such cases, that the money was to be paid back if the
ship reached port safely, they laid a plot to sink the ship, that so they might
defraud their creditors. Hegestratus, accordingly, when they were two or three
days' voyage from land, went down by night into the hold of the vessel, and
began to cut a hole in the ship's bottom, while Zenothemis, as though knowing
nothing about it, remained on deck with the rest of the passengers. When the
noise was heard, those on the vessel saw that something wrong was going on in
the hold, and rushed down to bear aid.
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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