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Consequently when my
affairs were in the condition which I have described, and at the same time I was
ordered by the general, Timomachus, to sail to Hieron1 to convoy the grain, though he provided no pay
（word had been brought that the Byzantines and the Calchedonians were
again bringing the ships into port and forcing them to unload their
grain）, I borrowed money from Archidemus of Anaphlystus,2 fifteen minae at interest, and I secured from Nicippus,
the shipowner, who happened to be in Sestus,3 eight hundred drachmae, as a
maritime loan at 12 1/2 per cent, on condition that I should pay him principal
and interest when the ship should get safely back to Athens.
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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