[101]
—But in fact he went out of his
way to avoid the statutes of tax-farming; and, because Euctemon's decree did
authorize recovery from losers of suits according to those statutes, for that
very reason he omitted to add the clause. In that manner, by cancelling the
existing punishment of public defaulters without substituting any other, he
makes havoc of all our business,—the Assembly, the cavalry, the
Council, the sacred funds, the civil revenue. And for that offence, men of
Athens, if you are wise men, he
will be chastised and treated as he deserves, and so made an example to deter
others from bringing in such laws.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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