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This, men of
the jury, is the agreement which Phormio produced, alleging that he had leased
the bank upon these terms. You learn from hearing it read that Phormio, over and
above the daily expenditure, was to pay as rent two talents and forty minae each
year, and that it was not to be permitted him to carry on a banking business,
unless he obtained our consent; and there is added as a final statement,
“Pasio owes eleven talents upon the deposits.”
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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