[15] Stop reading.
(To Theocrines.)
Do you hear, fellow, what it says?— or to any one of the eponymous heroes.(To the clerk.)
Read the deposition of the members of the tribe.The Deposition
It is likely indeed, men of the jury, that the defendant would have regard for few persons and for those who spend most of their time at sea, as Micon does, when he felt neither fear nor shame in the presence of his tribesmen, in the first place, when administering their public business in such a way that they convicted him of embezzlement, and in the second place, although he had been fined and knew well that the laws forbade him to prefer indictments until he should pay, when defying the laws and holding that, while other state-debtors could exercise no public function, he had the right to be superior to the laws.
Against Theocrines. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.
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