Two days later we met again and solemnly pledged each other to keep the affair secret, a pledge which he failed to keep, as you yourselves will learn as my story proceeds, and he agreed to sail with me to the Pontus and there pay me back the gold, in order that he might settle our contract at as great a distance as possible from Athens, and that no one here might know the nature of our settlement, and also that on his return from the Pontus he might say anything he pleased; but in the event that he should not fulfil these obligations, he proposed to entrust to Satyrus an arbitration on stated termsFor arbitration under terms or on certain conditions cf. also Isoc. 18.10 and Dem. 49, , fn. 1. In such cases the arbitrator had no discretionary power. Cf. Jebb's ii. p. 234. which would permit Satyrus to condemn Pasion to pay the original sum, and half as much in addition.

When he had drawn up this agreement in writing we brought to the Acropolis Pyron, of Pherae,In Thessaly. who frequently sailed to the Pontus, and placed the agreement in his custody, stipulating that if we should come to a satisfactory settlement with each other, he should burn the memorandum; otherwise, he was to deliver it to Satyrus.