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The clerk has
read the depositions of all those whom I was able to produce, who were present
in person, to prove that I again and again offered to give over the ship to
Polycles, and that he refused to take it. More than that, I have shown by
convincing circumstantial evidence, why it was that he refused to take over the
ship. I desire now to have read to you the law also regarding those appointed to
succeed others in the trierarchy, that you may know how severe the penalties are
when a man fails to take over a ship from his predecessor within the appointed
time, and how Polycles scoffed, not at me only, but at you and at the laws.
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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