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§ 27. The notion of my persuading (or bribing) the plaintiff's servants is absurd. Why should I? When the offer was made to me either to be paid or to take the slaves, I preferred to be paid (§ 12). ἐκ τοῦ προκαλεῖσθαι ‘From my having proposed to him to give over to me these slaves of his, and his being unwilling to do so.’ Nicobulus would seem to have proposed that Pantaenetus’ slaves should be interrogated under torture whether Nicobulus had given them any orders on the subject. See on § 40, where the surrender of a slave by Nicobulus is proposed on the other side. εἱλόμην κομίσασθαι See § 13.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part I. F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D., and J. E. Sandys, Litt. D. 1898. Cambridge University Press.
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