Unknown Pleader Against Phaenippus, On an Exchange of Properties (5-6)

On the second day of the month Metageitnion,[*] men of the jury, the generals appointed a court for the Three Hundred for the tendering of exchanges. Among these I cited this man Phaenippus as the law provides. After citing him, I took some of my friends and relatives, and proceeded to his outlying farm at Cytherus.[*] And first I led them around the farm, the circuit of which was more than forty stades,[*] and pointed out to them, and called them to witness in the presence of Phaenippus, that there were no mortgage-pillars[*] on the farm, and I bade Phaenippus, if he said there were, to declare it at once and point them out to me, for fear some debt existing against the property might be brought to light later on.

Then I sealed the buildings, and bade Phaenippus to proceed to my property. After this I asked him where his threshed grain was, for by the gods and goddesses, men of the jury, there were two threshing-floors there, each one of nearly a plethron in extent.[*] He answered me that some of the grain had been sold, and that some was stored within.