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“Do you, therefore,” he said,
“provide for me the amount which is lacking before the thirty days
have passed, in order that what I have already paid, the thousand drachmae, may
not be lost, and that I myself be not liable to seizure. I shall make a
collection from my friends,” he said, “and when I have got
rid of the strangers, I shall pay you in full whatever you shall have lent me.
You know,” he said, “that the laws enact that a person
ransomed from the enemy shall be the property of the ransomer, if he fail to pay
the redemption money.”
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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