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but I thought it the most
outrageous thing ever seen among men, that I should myself suffer the wrong, but
that another should lend his name on behalf of me, the one wronged; and that
this would then serve as presumptive proof to my adversaries that I am lying
whenever I speak to you of our enmity; for they would say that no other man
would have filed the information, if I were myself the one wronged. It was for
this reason that I filed the information. And now that I have done so, if I can
prove that the slaves belong to Arethusius, to whom they are stated in the
information to belong, I relinquish to the state the three fourths which under
the law are given to the private citizen filing the information; for myself it
is enough to have taken vengeance.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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