[25] He deserves then, does he not, to be let off now, seeing that he has been so public-spirited and ambitious to serve both with his property and his person? No; far from it. For it is the duty of honest jurymen to give respite to those citizens, when they have need of such help, who, when prosperous, willingly perform public services and remain in the list of the Three Hundred; but as to those who consider as lost whatever money they spend upon the state, you should bring them into the list of those who make advance contributions, and not suffer them to run away from their duty.
(To the clerk.)
Read first the deposition, and then his declaration.The Deposition. The Declaration
Against Phaenippus. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.
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