This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
[11]
These men are themselves our strongest witnesses; for
they will be shown never to have brought suit against Demaretus in his lifetime;
but, more than that, anyone who examines and studies the case itself will see,
not only that he did not receive the money, but that it was impossible that he
should have received it. For the debt was in Bosporus, a place which Demaretus
never visited; how, then, could he have collected it? Ah, but, they will say, he
sent someone to get the money.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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.