On the Olive Stump

Nay, in truth, gentlemen, I think it is manifest to all that, had I refused to deliver the men at Nicomachus’s request, I should be considered conscious of my guilt[*](The offer of one’s slaves for the extraction of evidence under torture was generally presumed to be a sign of one’s innocence.); so, since he declined to accept them when I offered to deliver them, it is fair to form the same opinion regarding him, especially as the danger is not equal for us both.