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Fellow citizens, I hired Timarchus to serve me as a prostitute according to the contract that is deposited with Demosthenes—there is no reason why that statement might not be made!—but he fails to carry out his engagement with me. And now, of course, he proceeds to describe this engagement to the jury, telling what it is that a man of that sort is expected to do. Thereupon will not the man be stoned who has hired an Athenian contrary to the laws, and will he not leave the court-room not only sentenced to pay his fine,In certain classes of private suits, if the plaintiff failed to receive one-fifth of the votes of the jury, he had to pay to the defendant one-sixth of the sum for which he had sued (one obol in the drachma (= six obols), hence the name ἐπωβελία). but also convicted of wanton outrage?