[23]
So far, so good. But if there were
the most serious shortage of possible contributors, in Heaven's name, which
would you prefer—to organize syndicates for those services as for the
equipment of war-vessels, or to rob your benefactors of what you have given
them? I think I should prefer the syndicates. By the present law, while each of
these thirty is performing a public service, Leptines affords a respite for the
others, and that is all; after that, each of them will have to spend as much as
before; but in the other case, each would pay a small contribution, proportioned
to his means, and none would be hardly treated, even if his property were quite
small.
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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