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§ 31. Don't listen therefore when he tries to cajole you by comparing our conduct with the treatment that others receive, but bring him to book, and his obligation by the contract. I say, obligation; for we both allow that the matter turns on the clause, ‘if the ship gets in safe.’ ἀποδέχεσθε As frequently ἀνέχεσθαι, this verb takes a genitive, originally perhaps taken absolutely, ‘when he says this, don't take it from him,’ or ‘don't bear it.’ Cf. Or. 19 p. 345 fin. οὔτε τῶν τὰ τρόπαια καὶ τὰς ναυμαχίας λεγόντων ἀνέχεσθαι. [For ἀποδέχεσθαι with the genitive, see Or. 27 Aphob. A § 59; 48 Olymp. § 51; Lysias 14 § 24; Deinarchus 1 § 113 μὴ ἀποδέχεσθε αὐτῶν. S.] τὰ πρὸς τοὺς ἄλλους δ. πεπραγμένα What other borrowers do (or perhaps, what he himself does) to other lenders. G. H. Schaefer explains παραβάλλοντος as παράδειγμα ποιουμένου.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part I. F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D., and J. E. Sandys, Litt. D. 1898. Cambridge University Press.
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