Isocrates, Trapeziticus, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 35

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[35] Already Pasion has tried to persuade certain persons that I had no money at all here, asserting that I had borrowed three hundred staters¹ from Stratocles. It is worth while, therefore, that you should hear me also on these matters, in order that you may understand how flimsy is the proof which encourages him to try to defraud me of my money. Now, men of the jury, when Stratocles was about to sail for Pontus, I, wishing to get as much of my money out of that country as possible, asked Stratocles to leave with me his own gold and on his arrival in Pontus to collect its equivalent from my father there,

Trapeziticus. Isocrates. Larue Van Hook (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Trapeziticus (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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Τραπεζιτικός Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 35 focus

[35] ἤδη δέ τινας Πασίων ἐπεχείρησε πείθειν, ὡς τὸ παράπαν οὐδʼ ἦν ἐνθάδε μοι χρήματα, λέγων ὡς παρὰ Στρατοκλέους ἐδανεισάμην τριακοσίους στατῆρας. ἄξιον οὖν καὶ περὶ τούτων ἀκοῦσαι, ἵνʼ ἐπίστησθʼ, οἵοις τεκμηρίοις ἐπαρθεὶς ἀποστερεῖ με τῶν χρημάτων. ἐγὼ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, μέλλοντος Στρατοκλέους εἰσπλεῖν εἰς τὸν Πόντον, βουλόμενος ἐκεῖθεν ὡς πλεῖστʼ ἐκκομίσασθαι τῶν χρημάτων, ἐδεήθην Στρατοκλέους τὸ μὲν αὑτοῦ χρυσίον ἐμοὶ καταλιπεῖν, ἐν δὲ τῷ Πόντῳ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς τοὐμοῦ κομίσασθαι,

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Trapeziticus

1. The stater was a coin of a certain weight. The Persian gold stater, or daric, was worth a little more than a pound sterling. These were probably Cyzicene staters of Asia Minor.

Isocrates Trapeziticus 35

Larue Van Hook (Translator)

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