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again taking some of our citizens as
witnesses I approached the defendant in Tenedos, and bade him take over the ship
as my successor, and to reimburse me for the expenses I had incurred while I
serving as trierarch in his stead beyond my term. I did this in order that he
might not make use of the pretext, in his defence before you, that I refused to
hand over the ship to him because I was ambitious to sail home in a fast-sailing
ship and show off to you my lavish expenditure.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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