[7]
For the property of Apollodorus
did not amount to as much as three talents to enable him to pay in full a fine
of such magnitude, yet if it were not paid by the ninth prytany1 the fine
would have been doubled and Apollodorus would have been inscribed as owing
thirty talents to the treasury, all the property that he has would have been
scheduled as belonging to the state, and upon its being sold Apollodorus himself
and his children and his wife and all of us would have been reduced to extremest
distress.
1 The prytany was a tenth of the year, properly, the period during which each of the tribes held the presidency of the senate. See note a of Dem. 47.42
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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