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Kallisthenes had been arrested for failing to pay the balance of a debt, the creditor probably being Zenon. He had given some of his goods in pledge and he possessed some wine still unsold; all this was likely to be lost if he was kept in prison. He therefore begs Zenon, after …
[… ? lines lost …] τος ἀπαγήγοχέν με πρὸς τὸ λοιπὸν ὃ προσοφείλω δραχμὰς ξ. ἡμῖν δὲ συμβαίνει τινὰ μὲν τῶν σκευῶν διαπεπιστευκέναι, ὑπάρχει δὲ καὶ οἶνος ἔτι ἄπρατος. εἰ οὖν σοι δοκεῖ, καθάπερ καὶ ἔμπροσθεν παρὰ σοῦ ἐπιεικείας τετεύχαμεν, καὶ νῦν ἀνακαλεσάμενός μου διάκουσον, ἵνα …
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