"To show that I am telling the truth, the clerk will read you out the statements made about these matters by those who collected the military supplies and those who sent the supplies out. There is also a record of the pay which I gave every month to the rowers and fighting men....also there is a list of the sailors I hired and how much money was paid to each of them. From the evidence, you will recognise how generous I was and why the defendant was unwilling to take over the ship from me when my term as trierarch [trireme captain] came to an end.

... There is plenty of evidence from which I can prove that Polycles never intended to take over the ship from me in the first place. Even after you voted that he should and made him join the ship, he was unwilling to take over from me as captain. He came to Thasos when it was already four months after my term of office had finished. I took witnesses with me, as many citizens as I could, fighting men as well as rowers. I went up to him in the market place at Thasos and told him to take over from me as my successor and to repay me for what I had spent since my term of office came to an end."