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Such, or
substantially such, were the proceedings in court. But when this worthy fellow
saw that the people were filled with wrath, and that he himself had been
believed, as one who was not wholly depraved, he summoned Polyeuctus before the
archon and lodged an indictment against him for maltreatment of an orphan, and
put the case in the hands of the assessor Mnesarchides.1 When, however, he had received two hundred drachmae from
Polyeuctus and had sold for a trifling sum those awful charges for which he had
fixed the damages in my father's case at ten talents, he dropped the matter,
withdrew the indictment, and left the orphan in the lurch.Call, please, the witnesses who support these statements.“
Witnesses
”
1 Each of the three chief archons （the Eponymus, the King, and the Polemarch） had two assessors to whom he could delegate the conduct of business for him. This case would belong to the Eponymus.
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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