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I therefore beg of you all, men of the jury, that, if I prove that Phaenippus here has both transgressed the just provisions of the law and is a richer man than myself, you will succor me, and appoint him in the list of the Three Hundred in my stead; for it is on this account that the laws every year provide for the tendering of exchanges, because to enjoy unbroken prosperity is not wont to be the permanent fortune of any large number of our citizens. But I will tell you all that has been done regarding the exchange from the very beginning.
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On the second day of the month Metageitnion,The month Metageitnion corresponds to the latter half of August and the prior half of September. men of the jury, the generals appointed a court for the Three Hundred for the tendering of exchanges. Among these I cited this man Phaenippus as the law provides. After citing him, I took some of my friends and relatives, and proceeded to his outlying farm at Cytherus.Cytherus was a deme of the tribe Pandionis. And first I led them around the farm, the circuit of which was more than forty stades,The stade was roughly a furlong. and pointed out to them, and called them to witness in the presence of Phaenippus, that there were no mortgage-pillarsInscribed pillars were set up to indicate that a piece of property was mortgaged. See Dem. 31 passim. on the farm, and I bade Phaenippus, if he said there were, to declare it at once and point them out to me, for fear some debt existing against the property might be brought to light later on.
