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All this is
ancient history, though I expect some of you remember it, for all Athens heard of the challenge and of the plot
they then hatched and of their brutal behavior. As for me, being quite alone in
the world and a mere lad, I did not want to lose the property that was still in
the hands of my guardians, and I expected to obtain, not the trifle that I was
actually able to recover, but all that I knew I had been robbed of; so I gave
them twenty minas, the sum which they had paid for the performance of their
trierarchy by deputy. Such was the scandalous treatment that I received at their
hands.
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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