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We, men of the jury, were indignant at these
words, but we gained nothing by our indignation, for these men cared not a fig
for it. Nevertheless we asked them in what way the goods had been lost. This
man, Lacritus, said that the ship had been wrecked while sailing along the coast
from Panticapaeum to Theodosia,1 and
that in the wreck of the vessel the goods of his brothers which were at the time
on board were lost; there was on board salt fish, Coan wine, and sundry other
things; this, they said, had been put on board as a return cargo, and they had
intended to bring it to Athens, had it not been lost in the ship.
1 Panticapaeum is the modern Kertsch, and Theodosia the modern Kaffa in the Crimea.
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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