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Let this, then,
be another proof to you that Apaturius is lying. If I had become surety to him
for Parmeno, it is inconceivable that I should have made the plaintiff my enemy
for Parmeno's sake, taking every care that the latter should not lose what he
had lent the plaintiff through me, and yet have allowed myself to be left in the
lurch by him as his surety to the plaintiff. For what ground had I to hope that
leniency would be shown me by the man whom I had compelled to do justice to
Parmeno? And when I had made him my enemy by exacting from him what was
guaranteed to the bank, what treatment could I myself have expected to receive
at his 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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