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§§ 38—40. If the terms of the loan forbid lending the money ‘in Pontus,’ that must be regarded as decisive. These Sophists are ‘a bad lot.’ I don't say it because they have paid for learning eloquence (that is their affair); but if their eloquence is perverted to injustice, they ought to be punished.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part I. F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D., and J. E. Sandys, Litt. D. 1898. Cambridge University Press.
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