<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0010.tlg005.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div n="12" subtype="section" type="textpart"><p>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<note resp="editor">The Polemarch was one of the nine archons of Athens. He had
            supervision of the affairs of foreigners and resident-aliens.</note> 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.</p><p rend="align(center)"><label>Witnesses</label></p></div></div></body></text></TEI>