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For if you look at
each matter severally, you will find that Theophemus was wholly in the wrong,
and that this is not merely a statement of mine but a fact decided by vote of
the senate and the court. For when I had received his name from the magistrate,
I approached him and first demanded the ship's equipment; when he refused to
give it back on my making this statement, I subsequently fell in with him near
the Hermes1 which stands by the little gate and summoned him before
the despatching board and the overseers of the dockyards; for it was they who at
that time brought into court suits regarding ship's equipments.
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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