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Now, men of the jury, is there a man, or will
the man ever be born, who, instead of twenty-six hundred drachmae would prefer
to pay thirty minae and three hundred and sixty drachmae, and as interest five
hundred and sixty drachmae by virtue of his loan, both which sums Phormio says
he has paid Lampis, in all three thousand nine hundred and twenty drachmae? And
when he might have paid the money in Athens, seeing that it had been lent for the double voyage, has
he paid it in Bosporus, and too much by
thirteen minae?
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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