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These provisions, men of the jury, stand
written in the agreement which you have heard. But instead of three thousand
jars, these men did not put even five hundred on board the boat; and instead of
having bought the quantity of wine which they should have, they used the money
in whatever way they pleased; as for those three thousand jars which the
agreement called for, they never meant nor intended to put them on
board.To prove that these statements of mine
are true, take the deposition of those who sailed with them in the same ship.
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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