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Inasmuch as the
laws, men of the jury, have granted that a special plea may be entered in cases
where a man, after giving a release and discharge,1 nevertheless brings suit, and as both
of these have been given to our father by Nausimachus and Xenopeithes who have
commenced suit against us, we have pleaded, as you have just now heard, that
their suit is not admissible.
1 The opening sentences of this speech repeat almost verbatim those of the preceding oration.
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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