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Having heard reports both of this state and of the other lands where Greeks live, I desired to travel abroad. And so my father loaded two ships with grain,Athens imported great quantities of grain from the Pontus; cf. Dem. 20.31-35. gave me money, and sent me off on a trading expedition and at the same time to see the world.Cf. Hdt. 1.29 where Solon leaves Athens “to see the world” (κατὰ θεωρίαν). Pythodorus, the Phoenician, introduced Pasion to me and I opened an account at his bank.
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Later on, as a result of slander which reached Satyrus to the effect that my father was plotting against the throne and that I was associating with the exiles, Satyrus arrested my father and sent orders to citizens of Pontus in residence here in Athens to take possession of my money and to bid me to return and, if I refused to obey, to demand of you my extradition.
