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That it was
absolutely necessary, therefore, for me to take over the names of those indebted
to the state, you have heard from the law and the decrees; and that I took them
over from the magistrate, the one who delivered them to me has testified. So,
then, the first question for you to consider at the outset, men of the jury, is
this, whether the wrongdoer was I, who was compelled to recover from Theophemus
what he owed, or Theophemus, who had long owed the equipment to the state and
refused to give it back.
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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