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Who can doubt why you
were the first man to change the ancient custom of all your predecessors, to
disregard the great advantage of having the money pass through the hands of others,
and to undertake a work of such difficulty, so liable to accusation,—a
task of such delicacy, inseparable from suspicion? After that, other sources of gain
are established arising from this one article of the navy; just listen to their
number, O judges;—he receives money from the cities to excuse them from
furnishing sailors; the sailors that are furnished he releases for a bribe; he makes
a profit of the whole of thee pay of those who are thus released; he does not pay
the rest all that he ought to pay. All this you shall have proved to you by the
evidence of the cities. Read the evidence of the cities. [The evidence of the cities
is read.]
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