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If, now,
there were water enough in the water-clock to permit my telling you in detail
from the beginning all the benefits I have conferred on them and all the acts
they have committed toward me, I am sure that you would feel more lenient toward
me for my resentment against them, and would deem these men the most wicked of
humankind. As it is, however, even double the amount of water that I now have
would be insufficient. I shall therefore relate to you the greatest and most
flagrant of their wrongdoings, and those which gave rise to the filing of the
information; the bulk of them I shall pass over.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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