Demosthenes, Against Dionysodorus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 1

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[1] I am a sharer in this loan, men of the jury. We, who have engaged in the business of overseas trade and put our money in the hands of others, have come to know one thing very clearly: that in all respects the borrower has the best of us. He received the money in cash which was duly acknowledged, and has left us on a scrap of paper¹ which he bought for a couple of coppers, his agreement to do the right thing. We on our part do not promise to give the money, we give it outright to the borrower.

Against Dionysodorus. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Dareius Against Dionysodorus in the Matter of a Loan (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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κατὰ Διονυσοδώρου βλάβης Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 1 focus

[1] κοινωνός εἰμι τοῦ δανείσματος τούτου, ἄνδρες δικασταί. συμβαίνει δʼ ἡμῖν τοῖς τὴν κατὰ θάλατταν ἐργασίαν προῃρημένοις καὶ τὰ ἡμέτερʼ αὐτῶν ἐγχειρίζουσιν ἑτέροις ἐκεῖνο μὲν σαφῶς εἰδέναι, ὅτι ὁ δανειζόμενος ἐν παντὶ προέχει ἡμῶν. λαβὼν γὰρ ἀργύριον φανερὸν καὶ ὁμολογούμενον, ἐν γραμματειδίῳ δυοῖν χαλκοῖν ἐωνημένῳ καὶ βυβλιδίῳ μικρῷ πάνυ τὴν ὁμολογίαν καταλέλοιπε τοῦ ποιήσειν τὰ δίκαια. ἡμεῖς δʼ οὐ φαμὲν δώσειν, ἀλλʼ εὐθὺς τῷ δανειζομένῳ δίδομεν τὸ ἀργύριον.

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Against Dionysodorus

1. That is, of course, papyrus.

Demosthenes Against Dionysodorus 1

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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