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he brought an action against him, not indeed an action for
money, like the present one, but an action for damages, declaring that my father
had wrought him injury by paying to Cephisiades the money which Lycon, the
Heracleote, had left in his keeping after having promised not to pay it without
the plaintiff's consent. After he had brought suit, he took back the papers from
the public arbitrator, and challenged my father to refer the case to
Lysitheides, a friend of Callippus himself and of Isocrates and Aphareus,1 and an acquaintance of my father.
1 These were doubtless the famous orator and the tragic poet.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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