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I for my part am trying to
conceive what in the world he would have written in the special plea, if
Theodotus had dismissed the suit, when now, after Theodotus has decreed that we
should go into court, he declares that the action is not one that can be brought
before you, to whom Theodotus bade us go.1
Surely I should suffer most cruel treatment if, when the laws declare that suits
growing out of contracts made at Athens shall be brought before the
Thesmothetae, you, who have sworn to decide according to the laws, should
dismiss the suit.
1 If, under the present circumstances, Phormio's insolence is so great, who can say what it would have been, had the arbitrator decided in his favor?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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