Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Polycles, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 18

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[18] Further, I sent Euctemon, the pentecontarch,¹ to Lampsacus,² giving him money and letters to friends of my father, and bade him hire for me the best sailors he could. I myself stayed in Sestus and gave some money—all I had—to the old sailors who stayed with me, since the term of my trierarchy had expired, and I secured also some other sailors at full pay, while the general was making ready for his voyage to Hieron.

Apollodorus Against Polycles. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Apollodorus Against Polycles for Expenses Incurred while Serving as Trierarch (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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[18] καὶ πέμψας Εὐκτήμονα τὸν πεντηκόνταρχον εἰς Λάμψακον, δοὺς αὐτῷ ἀργύριον καὶ γράμματα πρὸς τοὺς ξένους τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ ἐμοῦ, ἐκέλευσά μοι αὐτὸν ναύτας μισθώσασθαι ὡς ἂν δύνηται ἀρίστους· αὐτὸς δʼ ὑπομείνας ἐν Σηστῷ τοῖς τε παραμείνασι τῶν ἀρχαίων ναυτῶν ἔδωκά τι, ὅσον εἶχον, ἐπειδή μοι ὁ χρόνος ἐξῆκεν τῆς τριηραρχίας, καὶ ἑτέρους ναύτας ἐντελομίσθους προσέλαβον, ἐν ὅσῳ ὁ στρατηγὸς τὸν ἀνάπλουν τὸν ἐφʼ Ἱερὸν παρεσκευάζετο.

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Apollodorus Against Polycles

1. The pentecontarch was properly an under-officer in charge of a tier of fifty oarsmen.

2. Lampsacus, a town on the Hellespont.

Demosthenes Apollodorus Against Polycles 18

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