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Demosthenes, Against Zenothemis, section 20 (search)
When, therefore, he refused to be put out of possession
by Protus, or to sail back to Sicily
for an equitable settlement, and when it was proved that he was an accomplice in
all the villainy of Hegestratus, the only course left for us, who had lent our
money here at Athens and had taken
over the grain from the man who had honestly purchased it there in Sicily, was to dispossess the plaintiff.
refused to be put out of possession
by Protus, or to sail back to Sicily
for an equitable settlement, and when it was proved that he was an accomplice in
all the villainy of Hegestratus, the only course left for us, who had lent our
money here at Athens and had taken
over the grain from the man who had honestly purchased it there in Sicily, was to dispossess the plaintiff.
Demosthenes, Against Zenothemis, section 21 (search)
What else could we have done? Not one of
us partners had as yet any idea that you would ever declare the grain to be this
man's property—grain which he tried to induce the sailors to abandon,
that it might be lost by the sinking of the ship. This fact is the strongest
proof that none of it belonged to him; for who would have tried to induce those
who were attempting to save it to abandon grain which belonged to himself? Or
who would not have accepted the challenge and have sailed to Sicily, where these matters might have been
clearly proved
Demosthenes, Against Apatourius, section 13 (search)
Since then I
have had no business transaction with the fellow, whether great or small, but
Parmeno sued him for damages for the blows which he received from him when he
laid hands on the slaves as they were being carried off, and because he had been
prevented by him from making the voyage to Sicily. When the action had been instituted, Parmeno tendered
an oath to Apaturius regarding some of his charges, and he accepted it, and
furthermore made a deposit to be forfeited if he did not swear the
oath.In proof that my words are true, take
the deposition.
Deposition
Demosthenes, Against Nicostratus, section 5 (search)
It
happened that I was sent as trierarch round the Peloponnesus, and from thence I had to carry to Sicily the ambassadors whom the people had
elected. I was forced to set sail in haste, so I wrote to Nicostratus, telling
him that I had to put to sea, and that I should not be able to come home for
fear of delaying the ambassadors; and I charged him to look after the
administration of matters at home, as he had done before.
Demosthenes, Against Dionysodorus, section 9 (search)
Well then, when these men despatched their ship from
Athens, they left the price of
grain here pretty high, and for this reason they submitted to have the clause
written in the agreement binding them to sail to Athens and to no other port. Afterwards, however, men of the
jury, when the ships from Sicily had
arrived, and the prices of grain here were falling, and their ship had reached
Egypt, the defendant straightway
sent a man to Rhodes to inform his
partner Parmeniscus of the state of things here, well knowing that his ship
would be forced to touch at Rhodes.
Demosthenes, Against Eubulides, section 37 (search)
When all the Greeks, at the time Xerxes was
about to cross over into Europe,480 B.C. dispatched an embassy to Gelon to
discuss an alliance, and when he answered that he would ally himself with them and supply them
with grain, provided that they would grant him the supreme command either on the land or on the
sea, the tyrant's ambition for glory in his demanding the supreme command thwarted the
alliance; and yet the magnitude of the aid he could supply and the fear of the enemy were
impelling them to share the glory with Gelon.See Hdt. 7.157 ff. But Gelon himself was in danger from an attack of the
Carthaginians upon the Greeks of Sicily.
[And last of all, many generations
later, the people of the Siceli crossed over in a body from Italy into Sicily and made their home in
the land which had been abandoned by the Sicani. And since the Siceli steadily grew more
avaricious and kept ravaging the land which bordered on theirs, frequent wars arose between
them and the Sicani, until at last they struck covenants and set up boundaries of their
territory, upon which they had agreed. With regard to these matters we shall give a detailed
account in connection with the appropriate period of time.]Diod.
5.6.3-4.