Demosthenes, Against Lacritus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 29

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[29] Well, their vessel lay at anchor there for more than twenty-five days, and these men walked about in your sample-market.¹ We on our part talked to them and bade them see to it that we received our money back as soon as possible; and they agreed, and said they were trying to arrange that very thing. While we thus approached them, we at the same time kept an eye on them to see whether they disembarked anything from the ship, or paid any harbor-dues.²

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

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Androcles Against Lacritus (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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[29] καὶ τὸ μὲν πλοῖον ὥρμει ἐνταῦθα πλείους ἢ πέντε καὶ εἴκοσιν ἡμέρας, οὗτοι δὲ περιεπάτουν ἐν τῷ δείγματι τῷ ἡμετέρῳ, καὶ ἡμεῖς προσιόντες διελεγόμεθα, καὶ ἐκελεύομεν τούτους ἐπιμελεῖσθαι ὅπως ἂν ὡς τάχιστα ἀπολάβωμεν τὰ χρήματα. οὗτοι δὲ ὡμολόγουν τε καὶ ἔλεγον ὅτι αὐτὰ ταῦτα περαίνοιεν. καὶ ἡμεῖς τούτοις προσῇμεν, καὶ ἅμα ἐπεσκοποῦμεν εἴ τι ἐξαιροῦνταί ποθεν ἐκ πλοίου ἢ πεντηκοστεύονται.

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Against Lacritus

1. A place in the market where samples of goods could be displayed. Compare Dem. 50.24 .

2. The books of the harbor-masters would show whether the tax of 2 percent had been collected, and thus whether any goods had been landed.

Demosthenes Against Lacritus 29

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