The
Phaselites,1 men of the jury, are up to no
new tricks; they are merely doing what it is their wont to do. For they are the
cleverest people at borrowing money on your exchange; but, as soon as they get
it and have drawn up a maritime contract, they straightway forget the contract
and the laws, and that they are under obligation to pay back what they have
received.
1 Phaselis was a town in Bithynia, on the southern coast of Asia Minor.
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