[51] Why, then, he will ask, do you not indict me for non-insertion in the register, seeing that I am a debtor, and not registered? Because the law ordains that indictments for non-insertion shall be lodged, not against those who are debtors and not registered, but against those who, although they have been registered and have not paid their debt, nevertheless have their names erased.
(To the clerk.)
Take the law, please, and read it.The Law
Against Theocrines. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.
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