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The Orations of Demosthenes (Volume 4)

The Orations of Demosthenes (Volume 4)

Demosthenes

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ISBN10: 1150300973
ISBN13: 9781150300974
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 182
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.78 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886. Excerpt: ... show you the outrageous tricks which they have played in the affair of the loan. Bead the agreement, and after that the depositions. THE AGREEMENT. Androcles of Sphettus and Nausicrates of Carystus have lent to Artemo and Apollodorus, both of Phaselis, three thousand drachms in silver from Athens to Mende or Scione, and thence to Bosporus, or, if they please, on the left coast as far as the Borysthenes, and back to Athens, at interest of two hundred and twenty-five for the thousand; but, in case they should sail out of Pontus to Hierum after the rising of Arcturus,1 at interest of three hundred for the thousand, on the security of three thousand casks of Mendsean wine, which shall be conveyed from Mende or Scione in the twenty-oared vessel of which Hyblesius is the owner. They hypothecate these goods, not owing upon them any money to any other 1 The following note is taken from Penrose: --After the rising of the star Arcturus, which in Hesiod's time took place sixty days after the solstice (Opera et Dies, 566). According to Ptolemy it was on the second of September. The discrepancy is thus explained by Captain Smyth: --1 The difference in the rising of Arcturus is the effect of the precession of the equinoxes--54 J annually, and from Hesiod's mention of when it took place in his time, the important chronological point of his age is gained. The star, however, though fine, was reckoned ungenial in its influences; and the change between the summer and autumnal Etesian winds being precursed by eight or ten days of squally weather, the prodromi of old, was ascribed to the direct power of Arcturus, instead of the alternation consequent upon the solar march. The times of the periodical changes of the Etesise are still objects of concern.' Gibbon, Vol. I. c. x., ...

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