Demosthenes, Against Leptines, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 32

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[32] See what this amounts to. He exacts a toll of one-thirtieth from exporters of corn from his country. Now from the Bosporus there come to Athens about four hundred thousand bushels; the figures can be checked by the books of the grain commissioners. So for each three hundred thousand bushels he makes us a present of ten thousand bushels, and for the remaining hundred thousand a present of roughly three thousand.¹

Against Leptines. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.

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Against Leptines (English) (Demosthenes. Vol. I. Olynthiacs, Philippics, Minor Public Speeches, Speech Against Leptines, I-XVII, XX. Vince, J. H., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930 (printing).)

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περὶ τῆς Ἀτελείας πρὸς Λεπτίνην Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 1. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.) — 32 focus

[32] τοῦτο δʼ ἡλίκον ἐστὶ θεωρήσατε. ἐκεῖνος πράττεται τοὺς παρʼ αὑτοῦ σῖτον ἐξάγοντας τριακοστήν. αἱ τοίνυν παρʼ ἐκείνου δεῦρʼ ἀφικνούμεναι σίτου μυριάδες περὶ τετταράκοντʼ εἰσί· καὶ τοῦτʼ ἐκ τῆς παρὰ τοῖς σιτοφύλαξιν ἀπογραφῆς ἄν τις ἴδοι. οὐκοῦν παρὰ μὲν τὰς τριάκοντα μυριάδας μυρίους δίδωσι μεδίμνους ἡμῖν, παρὰ δὲ τὰς δέκα ὡσπερανεὶ τρισχιλίους.

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Against Leptines

1. To help his audience in this piece of mental arithmetic, Demosthenes divides his 400,000 into two parts, of 300,000 (of which the thirtieth is easily calculated) and of 100,000, the thirtieth of which is 3333 1/3 or roughly 3000. It should be remembered that the medimnus is more strictly about a bushel and a half.

Demosthenes Against Leptines 32

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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