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Phormio, then,
men of Athens, who has in so many ways proved himself of service to the state
and to many of you, and has never done harm to anyone either in public or in
private, and who is guilty of no wrong toward this man Apollodorus, begs and
implores and claims your protection, and we, his friends, join in the same plea
to you. Of another fact, too, you should be informed. Depositions have been read
to you, men of Athens, showing that the defendant has supplied you with funds in
excess of the whole amount that he or anybody else possesses; but Phormio has
credit with those who know him for so great an amount and for far larger sums,
and through this he is of service both to himself and to you.1
1 I follow Sandys in the interpretation of this passage.
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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