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And Theophemus, after a lapse of time, when I had come back and made demands
upon him, would have said that he had paid back the equipment, and to show that
he had paid would have insisted upon these proofs—the crisis, the
urgency, and that I was not such a fool and had never been such a friend of his
as to wait; for what possible reason, then, when I was serving the state as
trierarch and was overseer of the navy-board, and when decrees of such a nature
and such a law were in force, should I have obliged him by delaying the
collection?
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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