Demosthenes Against Dionysodorus 2

ed. William Rennie

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[2] τῷ οὖν ποτὲ πιστεύοντες καὶ τί λαβόντες τὸ βέβαιον, προϊέμεθα; ὑμῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, καὶ τοῖς νόμοις τοῖς ὑμετέροις, οἳ κελεύουσιν, ὅσα ἄν τις ἑκὼν ἕτερος ἑτέρῳ ὁμολογήσῃ, κύρια εἶναι. ἀλλά μοι δοκεῖ οὔτε τῶν νόμων οὔτε συγγραφῆς οὐδεμιᾶς ὄφελος εἶναι οὐδέν, ἂν ὁ λαμβάνων τὰ χρήματα μὴ πάνυ δίκαιος ᾖ τὸν τρόπον, καὶ δυοῖν θάτερον, ἢ ὑμᾶς δεδιὼς ἢ τὸν συμβαλόντα αἰσχυνόμενος.

Against Dionysodorus. Demosthenes. ed. William Rennie. Oxford. 1931.

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κατὰ Διονυσοδώρου βλάβης (Greek) (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.)

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Dareius Against Dionysodorus in the Matter of a Loan Perseus (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).) — 2 focus

[2] What, then, do we rely upon, and what security do we get when we risk our money? We rely upon you, men of the jury, and upon your laws, which ordain that all agreements into which a man voluntarily enters with another shall be valid. But in my opinion there is no use in your laws or in any contract, if the one who receives the money is not thoroughly upright in character, and does not either fear you¹ or regard the rights of the one making the loan.

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