[14]
For when some of your
citizens, men of Athens, who chanced to be present advised to accept what was
offered and to sue for the amount under dispute, but not to admit the reckoning
of the interest to Rhodes until the
case should be settled we agreed to this. We were not unaware, men of the jury,
of our rights under the agreement, but we thought it better to suffer some loss
and to make a concession, so as not to appear litigious. But when the fellow saw
that we were on the point of accepting his offer, he said, “Well,
then, cancel the agreement.” “We cancel the agreement?
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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