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Let no one of you think, men of the jury, that
it is a thing beyond belief that Timotheus should have owed money to my father
and is now being prosecuted by me in this suit. On the contrary, when I have
called to your minds the occasion on which the loan was contracted and the
events in which the defendant was at that time involved and the straits to which
he was reduced, you will then hold that my father was most generous to
Timotheus, and that the defendant is not only ungrateful, but is the most
dishonest of humankind;
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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