[61]
It is
unlikely indeed that they left on the list any who were not Athenians, when they
conspired to expel even men who were citizens, whom the court restored. And
although he was a personal enemy of my father at the time, Eubulides not only
did not denounce him, but did not even cast his vote that he was not an
Athenian. How is this proved? Because my father was declared by all the votes to
be a member of the deme. But what need is there to speak of our fathers?
Eubulides himself, when I was entered on the register and all the demesmen after
taking the oath cast their votes regarding me as the law prescribes, neither
denounced me nor cast his vote against me; for in this case again they all voted
that I was a member of the deme. And, if they say that I am lying about this,
let anyone who wishes give evidence to the contrary in the time allotted to me.
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.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.