who farmed the place at different times of the period are not held
responsible, all the more ought those who did not buy until the peace, be
considered harmless by you.

9. However much I might say about the place before I bought it, I think I
have said enough. Within five days after I obtained the place I let it
out to Callistratus in the archonship of Pythodorus. 10. He farmed it two
years, receiving no olive tree, sacred or otherwise, nor any olive stump.
Demetrius had it the third year. In the fourth year I let it to Alcias, a
freedman of Antisthenes who has been dead three years. Finally, Proteus
hired it. Come here, witnesses.

WITNESSES.

11. When that time elapsed I farmed it myself. My accuser says that it
was during the archonship of Sumiades that I out down the olive. But
those who farmed it before I did, and hired it many years of me, assure
you that there was no olive on the place. What can be clearer than that
my accuser is lying? It could not be possible if there were no tree
there, that I, farming the place last, cut it down.

12. Formerly, (members of the) Boule, when men said that I was sharp and
careful, and would do nothing without a plan and purpose, I was annoyed
and preferred that they should speak of me as they ought; now, however, I
should like all of you to have this opinion about me, that you may
believe that I took good care to see--since (as he says) I was taking
such matters in hand--what profit there was in cutting it down, and what
penalty for so doing, what good I should have had if I escaped detection,
and what I should have suffered at your hands if I was detected. 13. For
men do not do things of this kind out of lawlessness, but for gain. And