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He instructed
Archebiades and Phrasias to point him out and introduce him to my father, when
he should return from his journey. It is the custom of all bankers, when a
private person deposits money and directs that it be paid to a given person, to
write down first the name of the person making the deposit and the amount
deposited, and then to write on the margin “to be paid to
so-and-so”; and if they know the face of the person to whom payment is
to be made, they do merely this, write down whom they are to pay; but, if they
do not know it, it is their custom to write on the margin the name also of him
who is to introduce and point out the person who is to receive the money. For a
grievous misfortune befell this Lycon.
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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