But, men of the jury, you should not grant more than their due to those who hold their own shamelessness to be stronger than the laws; if you do, you will multiply the numbers of those who mock at the just provisions of the laws. No; you should succor those who regard the voice of the laws as your voice, and the day appointed for coming into court as established in the interest of those who have been wronged, not of those who have done wrong. (To the clerk.) Read the depositions in support of what I have just said, and the laws. The Depositions. The Laws Having, then, been thus treated by Phaenippus, men of the jury, I reported to the generals the following inventory of my property. Read. The Inventory