under my guarantee—fifty on your behalf and one hundred and fifty on behalf of your three absent fellow purchasers. You have already paid the first man seventy-five under your guarantee. Pay me, therefore, the fifty I paid on your behalf, together with half of what remains of the one hundred and fifty I paid under my guarantee on behalf of your fellow purchasers, after deducting the seventy-five you paid under your guarantee—that is, thirty-seven and a half.” Once he has recovered this amount from him, he is left bearing one hundred and twelve and a half of what he paid under his guarantee.
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If he then also encounters the fourth man, from whom the first recovered fifty, he recovers sixty-two and a half from him, saying: “I am still bearing one hundred and twelve and a half of what I paid under my guarantee on your behalf and on behalf of your two absent fellow purchasers—thirty-seven and a half for you and seventy-five for your two absent fellow purchasers. You have already paid the first man twenty-five under your guarantee. Pay me, therefore, the thirty-seven and a half I paid on your behalf, together with half of what remains of the seventy-five I paid under my guarantee on behalf of your two fellow purchasers, after deducting the twenty-five you paid to the first man under your guarantee—that is, twenty-five. The total is thus sixty-two and a half,” as we have stated. Once he has recovered this amount from him, he is left bearing fifty of what he paid under his guarantee.
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If he then also encounters the fifth man, from whom the first recovered eighteen and three quarters, he recovers thirty-four and three eighths from him, saying: “I am still bearing fifty of what I paid under my guarantee, half on your behalf and half on behalf of your absent fellow purchaser. You have already paid the first man six and a quarter under your guarantee. Pay me, therefore, the twenty-five I paid on your behalf, together with half of what remains of the twenty-five I paid on behalf of your fellow purchaser, after deducting the six and a quarter