Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Polycles, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 53

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[53] When he had no longer need of ships of war, he put on board my vessel Eucinus of Pallenê,¹ as commander, and, enjoining upon him to give the sailors money every day, ordered me to sail for home. When, then, on our homeward voyage we were in Tenedos, and Lucinus, despite the orders given him by Timomachus, was furnishing no money for sustenance to the sailors (he said he had none, but should get some from Mytilenê), and the men had nothing with which to buy provisions, and without food could not have continued rowing,

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

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[53] ἐπειδὴ δʼ οὐκέτι χρεία ἦν αὐτῷ τριήρων, ἐμβιβάσας μοι Λυκῖνον τὸν Παλληνέα ἄρχοντα εἰς τὴν ναῦν, καὶ προστάξας αὐτῷ καθʼ ἡμέραν ἀργύριον διδόναι τοῖς ναύταις, ἀποπλεῖν οἴκαδέ με ἐκέλευεν. ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν καταπλέοντες οἴκαδε ἦμεν ἐν Τενέδῳ, καὶ οὔτε ὁ Λυκῖνος, ᾧ προσέταξεν ὁ Τιμόμαχος, ἐδίδου τοῖς ναύταις σιτηρέσιον (οὐ γὰρ ἔφη ἔχειν, ἀλλʼ ἐκ Μυτιλήνης λήψεσθαι), οἵ τε στρατιῶται εἶχον οὐδὲν ὅτου ἂν ἐπεσιτίσαντο, ἄσιτοι δὲ οὐκ ἂν ἐδύναντο ἐλαύνειν,

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1. Pallene , a deme of the tribe Antiochis.

Demosthenes Apollodorus Against Polycles 53

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