Demosthenes, Against Leptines, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 33

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[33] Now, so little danger is there of his depriving our state of this gift, that he has opened another depot at Theudosia, which our merchants say is not at all inferior to the Bosporus ,¹ and there, too, he has granted us the same exemption. I omit much that might be said about the other benefits conferred upon you by this prince and also by his ancestors, but the year before last, when there was a universal shortage of grain, he not only sent enough for your needs, but such a quantity in addition that Callisthenes had a surplus of fifteen talents of silver to dispose of.²

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.) — 33 focus

[33] τοσούτου τοίνυν δεῖ ταύτην ἀποστερῆσαι τὴν δωρειὰν τὴν πόλιν, ὥστε προσκατασκευάσας ἐμπόριον Θευδοσίαν, ὅ φασιν οἱ πλέοντες οὐδʼ ὁτιοῦν χεῖρον εἶναι τοῦ Βοσπόρου, κἀνταῦθʼ ἔδωκε τὴν ἀτέλειαν ἡμῖν. καὶ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα σιωπῶ, πόλλʼ ἂν ἔχων εἰπεῖν, ὅσʼ εὐεργέτηκεν ὑμᾶς οὗτος ἁνὴρ καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ πρόγονοι· ἀλλὰ πρωπέρυσιν σιτοδείας παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις γενομένης οὐ μόνον ὑμῖν ἱκανὸν σῖτον ἀπέστειλεν, ἀλλὰ τοσοῦτον ὥστε πεντεκαίδεκʼ ἀργυρίου τάλαντα, ἃ Καλλισθένης διῴκησε, προσπεριγενέσθαι.

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Against Leptines

1. Here not the district, but the capital, Panticapaeum , the modern Kertch. Sixty miles west lies Theudosia ( Kaffa ), an ancient colony of Miletus .

2. Callisthenes, as σιτώνηςor Food Controller (an office held by Demosthenes himself, Dem. 18.248 ), received so much corn from Leucon that, after supplying the needs of Athens , he was able to make 16 talents for the treasury by selling the surplus elsewhere.

Demosthenes Against Leptines 33

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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