[55]
Can anyone, indeed, say that they are not wronged and are not
suffering outrageous treatment, when they see this fellow's mistress, in
defiance of all decency, decked out with masses of jewels and with fine raiment,
going abroad in splendid state and flaunting the luxury purchased with what is
ours, while they are themselves too poor to enjoy such things? Are they not
suffering a wrong even greater than my own? And in adopting such a manner of
life is not Olympiodorus not manifestly mad and beside himself?Now, that he may not claim, men of the jury, that I am speaking
thus with a view to slandering him because of this suit, the clerk shall read
you a deposition from his relatives and mine.“
Deposition
”
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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