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On hearing this story, I felt pity for him, and moreover I saw in
what wretched plight he was, and he showed me the wounds of the fetters on his
calves （he has the scars of them still, but, if you bid him show them
to you, he will not wish to do so）; I therefore answered that in time
past I had been a true friend to him, and that now I would help him in his
distress, that I forgave him the three hundred drachmae which I had given his
brother for the expenses of his journey to fetch him, and that I would make a
contribution of one thousand drachmae toward his ransom.
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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