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But when they had been in town a good many
days, and we found that nothing had been disembarked from the ship, nor had any
harbor-dues been paid in their name, we began from then on to press them more
and more with our demands. And when we made ourselves burdensome to them, this
fellow Lacritus, the brother of Artemo, answered that they would be unable to
pay us, for all their goods were lost; and Lacritus declared he could make out a
good case in the matter.1
1 A sharp thrust at the sophist, ever ready “to make the worse the better reason.”
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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