[16]
I therefore thought
it best, if I withdrew and assumed the position of vendor in this man's
interest, that I should obtain a full release and discharge from all claims, and
thus make a final settlement with him. This was agreed to, and he gave me a
release in full, while I, as he begged me to do, assumed the position of vendor
of the property, exactly as I had myself bought it from Mnesicles. Having, then,
recovered my money, and having done the plaintiff no wrong whatsoever, I
imagined, by the gods, that, no matter what should happen, he would never bring
a suit against me.
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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