[2]
Now between this man Zenothemis and
myself there has been no contract or agreement in writing, as he himself
acknowledges in his complaint. He states that he made a loan to Hegestratus, a
shipowner, and that after the latter was lost at sea, we appropriated the cargo.
This is his charge in the complaint. The same speech will suffice to prove to
you that his action is not maintainable, and to make you see the whole of his
plot and his rascality.
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.