After this, men of the jury, messengers arrived with the news that my father had been
 released and that Satyrus was so repentant of all that had occurred that he had bestowed
 upon my father pledges of his confidence of the most sweeping kind, and had given him
 authority even greater than he formerly possessed and had chosen my sister as his son’s
 wife. When Pasion learned this and understood that I would now bring action openly about
 my property, he spirited away his slave Cittus, who had knowledge of our financial
 transactions. And when I went to him and demanded the surrender of Cittus, because I believed that this
 slave could furnish the clearest proof of my claim, Pasion made the most outrageous
 charge, that I and Menexenus had bribed and corrupted Cittus as he sat at his
 banking-table and received six talents of silver from him. And that there might be neither
 examination nor testimony under torture on these matters, he asserted that it was we who
 had spirited away the slave and had brought a counter-charge against himself with a demand
 that this slave, whom we ourselves had spirited away, be produced. And while he was making
 this plea and protesting and weeping, he dragged me before the Polemarch The Polemarch was one of the nine archons of Athens. He had
 supervision of the affairs of foreigners and resident-aliens. with a demand for
 bondsmen, and he did not release me until I had furnished bondsmen in the sum of six
 talents. Please summon for me witnesses to these facts. Witnesses You have heard the witnesses, men of the jury; and I, who had already lost part of my
 money and with regard to the rest was under the most infamous charges, left Athens for the
 Peloponnesus to investigate for myself. But Menexenus found the slave here in the city,
 and having seized him demanded that he give testimony under torture The evidence of slaves could only be given under torture; cf. §54. 
 about both the deposit and the charge brought by his master.