[46]
And
yet up to this day he has never had the case examined before the Archon, whom
the law appoints to have charge of such matters, and before whom the wrongdoer
runs the risk of having punishment or fine adjudged against him, while by the
prosecutor redress is sought without risk;1 nor has he impeached either me or Evergus as
wrongdoers, but he made these charges in the court-room, and secured a verdict
for two talents.
1 Whereas in the court the plaintiff ran the risk of having to pay the heavy penalty of the ἐπωβολία, if he failed to make good his case. See note on Dem. 27.67.
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.