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and when grain earlier
advanced in price and reached sixteen drachmae, we imported more than ten
thousand medimni of wheat, and measured it out to you at the normal price of
five drachmae a medimnus, and you all know that you had this measured out to you
in the Pompeium.1 And last year my brother and I made a free gift of a talent to
buy grain for the people.Read, please, the
depositions which establish these facts.“
Depositions
”
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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