[11] For the proposer of this law, in his desire that those of the merchants who were guilty of wrongdoing should not go unpunished, and that those who were innocent should not be annoyed, absolutely forbade a person of this sort to make denunciations unless he were confident that he could prove in your court that the things charged in his denunciation had actually taken place; but that if any one of those who bring baseless charges should transgress this law, he should be liable to criminal information and arrest.
(To the clerk.)
However, read them the law itself; for it will explain the matter more clearly than I can do.The Law
Against Theocrines. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.
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