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finding a support for his plea in the fact that the
agreement so ordered, and thinking that we should not find it easy to get at the
truth regarding all that they did by themselves alone. And Lampis declares that
all that he said to me1 before he was corrupted by this Phormio was
spoken when he was out of his head; but as soon as he got a share of my money,
he declares that he is in his right mind and remembers everything perfectly!
1 Either the speaker was with Chrysippus at the time Lampis made this statement, or else Chrysippus is now again the speaker.
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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