[3] Also it is so much easier to curry favour privately with certain persons than to stand up in defence of your rights that, while Timocrates has their fee in his pocket, and never introduced his law until he got it, I,so far from getting any reward from you, am risking a thousand drachmas in your defence.
Against Timocrates. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1935.
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