[41]
Again I say, it is not consistent,
Olympiodorus, that I should act in opposition to you, and yet should join with
you in expending whatever from time to time became necessary, or that I should
myself voluntarily abandon my claim, when you were abroad and your claim was
stricken off because it was thought that you were absent on account of the trial
and not on public service. For it was open to me to press my own claim for
one-half the estate; no human being opposed my claim, but my opponents
themselves allowed it.
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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