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I, men of Athens, lent to this man, Phormio, twenty minae for the double
voyage to Pontus and back, on the
security of goods of twice that value,1 and deposited
a contract with Cittus the banker. But, although the contract required him to
put on board the ship goods to the value of four thousand drachmae, he did the
most outrageous thing possible. For while still in the Peiraeus he, without our
knowledge, secured an additional loan of four thousand five hundred drachmae
from Theodorus the Phoenician, and one of one thousand drachmae from Lampis the
shipowner.
1 Such seems the most probable meaning of the disputed phrase.
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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