Demosthenes, Against Phormio, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 24

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[24] It is necessary that you should understand how large a sum he claims to have paid. A hundred and twenty staters amount to three thousand three hundred and sixty drachmae, and the interest at the land rate of sixteen and two-thirds percent on thirty-three minae and sixty drachmae is five hundred and sixty drachmae, and the total amount comes to so much.¹

Against Phormio. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1936.

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Plea of Chrysipus and Partner Against Phormio (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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πρὸς Φορμίωνα ὑπὲρ δανείου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 24 focus

[24] δεῖ δὴ μαθεῖν ὑμᾶς ὅσα φησὶν χρήματα ἀποδεδωκέναι. τῶν μὲν γὰρ ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι στατήρων γίγνονται τρισχίλιαι τριακόσιαι ἑξήκοντα, ὁ δὲ τόκος ὁ ἔγγειος ὁ ἔφεκτος τῶν τριάκοντα μνῶν καὶ τριῶν καὶ ἑξήκοντα πεντακόσιαι δραχμαὶ καὶ ἑξήκοντα· τὸ δὲ σύμπαν κεφάλαιον γίγνεται τόσον καὶ τόσον.

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Against Phormio

1. That is, of course, the sum of the two items, or three thousand nine hundred and twenty drachmae. The total is not mentioned here, as it is given in the lines immediately following. Note that the speaker inexactly speaks as if the whole sum (including the interest) had been paid to Lampis (according to Phormio’s claim). The argument is, however, valid, as the sum represents the cost to Phormio of paying off the loan.

Demosthenes Against Phormio 24

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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