[176]
Well, Athenians, what had Euandrus done
to deserve your condemnation? He had won a commercial suit against Menippus, but
being, as he alleged, unable to catch him sooner, he had arrested him while he
was staying here for the Mysteries. You condemned him for that alone, and there
were no aggravating circumstances. When he came before the court, you were
inclined to punish him with death, and when his accuser was induced to relent,
you compelled Euandrus to refund the damages, amounting to two talents, which he
had won in the former action, and you also made him compensate the fellow for
the loss that he had sustained, on his own calculation, by staying here in
deference to your preliminary verdict.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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