Demosthenes, For Phormio, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 4

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[4] First the clerk shall read to you the articles of agreement, in accordance with which Pasio leased to the defendant the bank and the shield-factory. Take, please, the articles of agreement, the challenge,¹ and these depositions.

The Articles of Agreement. The Challenge. The Depositions

These, men of Athens, are the articles of agreement in accordance with which Pasio leased the bank and the shield-factory to the defendant, after the latter had now become his own master.² But you must hear and understand how it was that Pasio came to owe the eleven talents to the bank.

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

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A Friend Pleading for Phormio (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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παραγραφὴ ὑπὲρ Φορμίωνος Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 4 focus

[4] πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ὑμῖν ἀναγνώσεται τὰς συνθήκας, καθʼ ἃς ἐμίσθωσε Πασίων τὴν τράπεζαν τούτῳ καὶ τὸ ἀσπιδοπηγεῖον. καί μοι λαβὲ τὰς συνθήκας καὶ τὴν πρόκλησιν καὶ τὰς μαρτυρίας ταυτασί.

ΣΥΝΘΗΚΑΙ. ΠΡΟΚΛΗΣΙΣ. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.

αἱ μὲν οὖν συνθῆκαι, καθʼ ἃς ἐμίσθωσεν ὁ Πασίων τούτῳ τὴν τράπεζαν καὶ τὸ ἀσπιδοπηγεῖον ἤδη καθʼ ἑαυτὸν ὄντι, αὗταί εἰσιν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι· δεῖ δʼ ὑμᾶς ἀκοῦσαι καὶ μαθεῖν ἐκ τίνος τρόπου προσώφειλεν τὰ ἕνδεκα τάλανθʼ ὁ Πασίων ἐπὶ τὴν τράπεζαν.

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For Phormio

1. It is not stated precisely what this challenge was; but it may well have been a demand made to Apollodorus to produce the articles in question.

2. He had been given his freedom by Pasio.

Demosthenes For Phormio 4

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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The Articles of Agreement. The Challenge. The Depositions

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ΣΥΝΘΗΚΑΙ. ΠΡΟΚΛΗΣΙΣ. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.

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