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However, read them the law
itself, that they may have more exact information.“LawIt shall be unlawful
for any Athenian or any alien residing at Athens or for any person over whom
they have control, to lend money on any vessel which is not going to bring
to Athens grain or the other articles specifically mentioned.1 And if any man lends out money contrary to
this decree, information and an account of the money shall be laid before
the harbor-masters in the same manner as is provided in regard to the ship
and the grain. And he shall have no right to bring action for the money
which he has lent for a voyage to any other place than to Athens, and no
magistrate shall bring any such suit to trial.”
1 The reader does not quote the law in full, but abridges it, and adds this clause as a sort of “et cetera.”
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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