Demosthenes, Against Phormio, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 32

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[32] Yes, he says, for the agreement bade me pay the cash to the shipowner.¹ But it did not prevent you from summoning witnesses, or from delivering the letters! The parties here present² drew up two agreements with you in the matter of the loan, showing that they greatly distrusted you, but you assert that without a single witness you paid the gold to the shipowner, although you well know that an agreement against yourself was deposited at Athens with my colleague here!

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.) — 32 focus

[32] ἡ γὰρ συγγραφή με, φησί, τῷ ναυκλήρῳ ἐκέλευεν ἀποδοῦναι τὸ χρυσίον. μάρτυρας δέ γʼ οὐκ ἐκώλυεν παρακαλεῖν, οὐδὲ τὰς ἐπιστολὰς ἀποδοῦναι. καὶ οἵδε μὲν πρὸς σὲ δύο συγγραφὰς ἐποιήσαντο ὑπὲρ τοῦ συμβολαίου, ὡς ἂν οἱ μάλιστʼ ἀπιστοῦντες· σὺ δὲ μόνος μόνῳ φὴς δοῦναι τῷ ναυκλήρῳ τὸ χρυσίον, εἰδὼς κατὰ σοῦ κειμένην Ἀθήνησι συγγραφὴν πρὸς τοῦτον.

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Against Phormio

1. This is best explained by assuming that the contract gave Phormio the right to pay the money to Lampis in Bosporus , if he did not ship a return cargo to Athens .

2. The reference is not wholly clear. It may be that others than Chrysippus and his partner had contributed to the sum lent to Phormio.

Demosthenes Against Phormio 32

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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