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§§ 36—42. The plaintiff will complain that he is utterly destitute and ruined. You must know then that, from the debts due to his father and the rents due to himself, he has received more than forty talents. Oh, but he has lavishly spent his money in the public service on trierarchal and choragic charges! On the contrary, all that he gave on his own account after the property was divided, barely amounted to twenty minae. Even assuming his boasted liberality to be true, that is no reason for giving the defendant's property to the plaintiff, and thus reducing the former to poverty, while we see the latter squandering his money in his customary manner. μισθώσεων ‘Rents.’ Cf. § 33. ὀδυρεῖται 21 § 186 ὀδυρεῖται καὶ πολλοὺς λόγους καὶ ταπεινοὺς ἐρεῖ. εἰσπέπρακται ἐκ τ. γραμ.] § 21 ἐκ ποίων γραμμάτων, n. ἀποστερεῖ ‘defrauds’ his brother of his shares in many of the debts. ἀποστερεῖν is constantly used of ‘withholding what is due to another,’ ‘keeping another out of his rights.’
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part II. J. E. Sandys, Litt. D., and F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D. 1910. Cambridge University Press.
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