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For
voyaging from Rhodes to Egypt is uninterrupted, and they could put the
same money to work two or three times, whereas here they would have had to pass
the winter and to await the season for sailing. These creditors therefore have
reaped an additional profit, and have not remitted anything to these men. With
us, however, it is not a question of the interest merely, but we are unable to
recover even our principal.
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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