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They, as soon as
they had won the adjudication, went at once to the Peiraeus and proceeded to
take over all that either of us had received from the division. I, being at
home, voluntarily gave over to them what I had （for it was necessary to
obey the laws）, but since Olympiodorus was abroad, they carried off all
his effects except the money which he had separately taken from the
man—the slave whom he had put to the torture; for they had no means of
getting hold of that money.
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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