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In suits of this
nature, men of the jury, it is fitting that those who are to render a decision,
as well as the litigants themselves, should give the closest attention. For the
suit is not a private one concerning Polycles and myself alone, but it touches
also the interests of the state as well. In cases where the charges indeed are
of a private nature, but the injury is public, it is surely fitting that you
should listen and decide aright. If I had come before you quarrelling with
Polycles about a contract of some other sort, the contest would have concerned
Polycles and myself alone; but as it is, the question concerns the succession to
a ship, and extra trierarchal expenses for five months and six days, and it
concerns also the laws, whether they are to be in force, or not.
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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