[2] I shall make of you all a just and reasonable request: first, that you listen to my words with goodwill, and, secondly, that if you think that I am being wronged and made defendant in a suit which has no valid basis, you render me the succor which is my due. The damages claimed in the action are, as you have heard, thirty minae; but the sum for which we are really being sued is four talents. For there are two of them, and they have entered four suits against us, all for a like amount, each for three thousand drachmae damages;
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and now on a complaint for thirty minae we are brought to trial for so large a sum.
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1936.
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