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that he had forbidden him to announce a decision against him without his
co-arbitrators; and that, after his wife and children had perished in the
earthquake, and he in the face of a disaster so appalling had sailed for home,
the man who had made away with the articles of agreement announced a judgement
against him by default in his absence, is there a single one of you who, when
Parmeno had brought out these facts in his defence, would have considered an
award so unjustly made to be valid?
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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