[26] He told him, too, about the ship’s equipment, that it was wholly my own, and that I had nothing from the public stores.
Therefore, he said,
plan to come to an agreement with him, or sail from here taking your own equipment with you. I think, however, he added,
that he will readily come to terms with you; for he owes money there, which he will be glad to pay from the price of the equipment. When the defendant heard these words from Euctemon and Deinias my father-in-law, he made no answer to them regarding the matters of which they spoke but, they said, he broke into a laugh, and said,
The mouse has just tasted pitch
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; for he wanted to be an Athenian.
Apollodorus Against Polycles. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.
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