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And to sum up the matter for you, he gave me so much trouble that he compelled me to bring suit against him regarding the name, not in order to get money from him, men of the jury, but that, if it should appear to you that I am being outrageously treated and am suffering grievous wrongs, he may go on being called Boeotus, as my father named him.
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To prove that I am speaking the truth in this also, take, please, the depositions bearing on these matters.
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The Depositions
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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.
