But in fact, gentlemen of the jury, I believe they will not have recourse to this argument, but will repeat, perhaps, what they said before the Council, — that it was in kindness to the city that they bought up the corn, so that they might sell it to you at as reasonable a price as possible. But I will give you a very strong and signal proof that they are lying.

If they were doing this for your benefit, they ought to have been found selling it at the same price for a number of days, until the stock that they had bought up was exhausted. But in fact they were selling at a profit of a drachmai.e., six times the legal profit on each measure. several times in the same day, as though they were buying by the medimnusAbout the same as the phormus in Lys. 22.5. at a time. I adduce you as witnesses of this.