But it is obvious that Pasion called in the three hundred drachmas as a favor to me, and
 that he became my surety for seven talents because he judged that the gold on deposit with
 him was a sufficient guarantee. That, therefore, I had a large sum of money here and that
 it was deposited in his bank I have not only proved to you from Pasion’s acts but you have
 also heard it from the others who know the facts. It seems to me, men of the jury, that you would best decide upon the questions at issue
 if you should call to mind that period and the situation in which our affairs stood when I
 sent Menexenus and Philomelus to claim the deposit and Pasion for the first time had the
 hardihood to deny its existence. You find, in fact, that my father had been arrested and
 deprived of all his property, and that I was unable, because of the embarrassment in which
 I found myself, either to remain here or to sail to the Pontus. And yet, which is the more reasonable supposition—that I, involved in misfortunes so
 great brought unjust charges against Pasion or that he, because of the magnitude of our
 misfortunes and the large sum of money involved, was tempted to defraud us? But what man
 ever went so far in chicanery as, with his own life in jeopardy, to plot against the
 possessions of others? For the same argument cf. Isoc. 21.14 . With what hope or with what intent would I
 have unjustly proceeded against Pasion? Was it my thought that, in fear of my influence,
 he would forthwith give me money? But neither the one nor the other of us was in such a
 situation.