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Stop reading. This far outdoes all the rest. For in the first place he says, contrary to the agreement which he had made with me. What agreement is this? We leased our own property to this man, at a rent equal to the interest on the loan; that was all. It was Mnesicles who sold it to us, in the presence of the plaintiff and at his request.
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Afterwards in the same way we sold the property to others on the same terms upon which we had ourselves bought it, and the plaintiff not only urged but actually implored us to do so; for no one was willing to accept him as the vendor. What, then, does the agreement to lease it have to do with the matter? Why, most worthless of men, did you insert that clause?
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However, to prove that we resold the property at your request, and on the same terms as those upon which we ourselves bought it, read the deposition.
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The Deposition
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You are yourself also a witness to this; for what we purchased for one hundred and five minae, this you afterward sold for three talents and twenty-six hundred drachmae. And yet who, if he had youThe title was not vested in Pantaenetus, but in the other claimants to whom it had been transferred at his request. as one to complete a final sale, would have given a single drachma?
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To prove that I speak the truth in this, call, please, the witnesses who establish the facts.
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The Witnesses
