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Why,
then, he says, did I charter other ships and tranship my cargo and despatch it
here to Athens? Because, men of
Athens, neither the defendant
nor his partner was owner of the entire cargo, but, I fancy, the supercargoes
who were on board despatched their own goods hither, in other bottoms
necessarily, seeing that these men had cut short the voyage before the ship
reached her destination. As for the goods, however, which were their own, they
did not ship these in their entirety to Athens, but sought out what ones had advanced in price.
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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