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I have told all these facts to you from the beginning, that you
may know how much I have myself expended and how burdensome my service as
trierarch has been to me, and all the expenses which I subsequently bore in the
interest of the defendant by serving beyond my term, since he did not come to
take over the ship, and all the dangers I myself incurred from storms and from
the enemy. For after we had convoyed the ships to Maroneia, and had arrived at
Thasos, Timomachus came and undertook again in conjunction with the Thasians to
convoy grain and a body of peltasts1 to Strymê,2 with the intention of taking
the place himself.
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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