[28]
If certain people have remitted anything
in your favor, and have been induced on one ground or another to accept interest
only as far as Rhodes, does it follow
that you are doing no wrong to us, your agreement with whom you have broken in
having your ship put into Rhodes? I do
not think so. For this jury is not now deciding upon concessions made to you by
others, but upon an agreement entered into by you yourself with us. For that the
remission of the interest, supposing that it actually took place, as these men
allege, was to the advantage of the creditors, is plain to every one of you.
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.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.