Already Pasion has tried to persuade certain persons that I had no money at all here,
 asserting that I had borrowed three hundred staters The
 stater was a coin of a certain weight. The Persian gold stater, or daric, was worth a
 little more than a pound sterling. These were probably Cyzicene staters of Asia
 Minor. from Stratocles. It is worth while, therefore, that you should hear me
 also on these matters, in order that you may understand how flimsy is the proof which
 encourages him to try to defraud me of my money. Now, men of the jury, when Stratocles was
 about to sail for Pontus, I, wishing to get as much of my money out of that country as
 possible, asked Stratocles to leave with me his own gold and on his arrival in Pontus to
 collect its equivalent from my father there,