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In addition to all this, on the charge that, when I was on military service and had collected mercenaries with AmeiniasApparently an otherwise unknown commander of mercenary troops, under whom Mantitheus served as taxiarch.(seeing that I was well-provided with funds from other sources, and had collected from Mytilene from your proxenusA state representative in a foreign land, somewhat analogous to our consul. Apollonides and the friends of our city three hundred Phocaic staters,The stater of Phocaea (a city on the coast of Ionia) was a gold coin somewhat heavier than the stater of Cyzicus (Dem. 34.23). and had spent that sum upon these troops, in order that a matter might be prosecuted which was of advantage to you and to them alike)—
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for this he brings suit against me, alleging that I had collected a debt due to my father from the city of the Mytileneans. In this he was seeking to serve Cammys,A tyrant of Mytilene, otherwise unknown. tyrant of Mytilene, who is an enemy of Athens and a private enemy of mine.
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But to prove that my father at the time received in person the reward which the people of Mytilene voted him, and that no debt was owing to him in Mytilene, I will produce a deposition of your friends.
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The Deposition
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I could mention many other outrageous acts of which Boeotus has been guilty, men of the jury, both against myself and against you; but I am compelled to pass them by as but little water is left me in the clepsydra.The water-clock. I think, however, that, even as it is, you have been shown conclusively that the same man who got up against me a suit involving the risk of banishment, and sued me on charges which concerned me not at all, is not one who would have come before the arbitrator unprepared; so that if he tries to say anything about this, I imagine that you will not tolerate it.
