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on account of the two, no less than forty minae have been contributed to special levies; for the Sicilian expedition he spent a hundred minae,1 and for commissioning the warships, when the Cypriots came and you gave them the ten vessels, he supplied thirty thousand drachmae2 to pay the light infantry and purchase their arms. The total of all these sums amounts to little short of fifteen talents.
Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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