[17]
More than this, men of
Athens, note another fact. These
very men entered a special plea last year, but dared not assert in their plea
that they had paid the money to Lampis.Now, pray
take the plea itself.“
Special Plea
”You hear, men of Athens. Nowhere in the plea is it stated
that Phormio had paid the money to Lampis, though I had expressly written in the
complaint, which you heard a moment ago, that Phormio had not put the goods on
board the ship nor paid the money. For what other witness, then, should you
wait, when you have so significant a piece of evidence from these men
themselves?
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.