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The defendant alone of the trierarchs appointed to succeed us has no excuse
left him for not having come to take over the ship long before. For Euctemon,
the pentecontarch, after he was sent home from the Hellespont on account of his
sickness, when he reached port and heard that Polycles had been appointed to
relieve me, knowing that the term of my trierarchy had expired and that I was
now serving over time, took with him my father-in-law, Deinias, and coming up to
Polycles in the sample market, bade him set sail and take over the ship with all
speed, telling him that the expenses which were incurred every day in addition
to the provision money supplied by the general were very heavy.
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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