[162]
With the help of this man he has stolen a
great deal of your property, for he had included in his decree an order that the
police-magistrates, the receivers, and their clerks, should all follow his
instructions. Taking these officers with him, he proceeded to invade your
dwelling-houses; and you, Timocrates, were the only one of his colleagues,
though there were ten of them, who went with him. And let no one suppose that I
am hinting that payment ought not to be exacted from defaulters. It ought; but
how? As the law directs, and disinterestedly; that is the democratic way. Men of
Athens, you got far less benefit
from the five talents that this man collected, than injury from the practices
that he introduced into your government.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.