[144]
Then be not stubborn, Leptines; do not
insist on a course which will not add to your own reputation or that of your
supporters, especially as this trial no longer endangers you. For owing to the
death of the father of Apsephion here, Bathippus, who indicted Leptines when he
was still liable, the legal period has elapsed, and now our whole concern is
with the law, and its proposer runs no risk.1
1 See Introduction p. 489.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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