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such were the
charges under which he lay, and he was in desperate need of money. For all his
property had been mortgaged, pillars had been set up on it, and other people
were in control. His farm in the plain had been taken over as security by the
son of Eumelidas; the rest of his property was mortgaged, for seven minae each,
to the sixty trierarchs who set out on the voyage with him, which money he as
admiral had forced them to distribute among their crews for maintenance.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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