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But when Aristolochus was ruined and lost his property, chiefly through having been plundered by this fellow and others of his stamp, Stephanus never stood by the son of Aristolochus, who was overburdened with lawsuits, nor aided him, but it was ApolexisApolexis is a not unfamiliar name (see e.g. Dem. 43.48), but of the Apolexis or the Solon here mentioned nothing is known. or Solon or anybody else that helped him rather than he. Then he has courted Phormio and become intimate with him, choosing him out of all the Athenians; and he sailed to ByzantiumByzantium, the modern Istanbul. as agent in his interest, when the Byzantines detained Phormio’s vessels, and he pleaded his cause against the Calchedonians,Calchedon is a town on the east side of the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium. and he has thus flagrantly given false witness against me.
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A man, then, who is a flatterer of those in prosperity, and who betrays these same men if they fall into adversity; who out of all the host of good and worthy citizens of Athens deals with not a single one on the basis of equality, but willingly fawns upon people like Phormio; who takes no thought whether he is going to injure any of his kinsfolk by these actions, or whether he is going to win an evil reputation in the minds of other men, but thinks only of one thing, how he may enrich himself—ought you not to loathe this man as a common enemy of the whole human race? I certainly think so.
