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Well,
their vessel lay at anchor there for more than twenty-five days, and these men
walked about in your sample-market.1 We on our part talked to them
and bade them see to it that we received our money back as soon as possible; and
they agreed, and said they were trying to arrange that very thing. While we thus
approached them, we at the same time kept an eye on them to see whether they
disembarked anything from the ship, or paid any harbor-dues.2
1 A place in the market where samples of goods could be displayed. Compare Dem. 50.24.
2 The books of the harbor-masters would show whether the tax of 2 percent had been collected, and thus whether any goods had been landed.
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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