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I Think, That you enjoy your Liberty is owing to me; but the Enjoyment of your Liberty I shall not charge to you as a debt, nor call you Ungrateful upon that Account. But pay me, I beseech you, the Moneys which you borrow'd of me. For I have at present extraordinary occasion for Money, and am fain to send all Sicily over a borrowing. And some
have supplied me of Free Gift, as the * 1.1 Geloans and Leontines; others promised me a Loan, as the Hyalaeans and the Phin∣tians. What therefore mean you, O ye Ennaeans, not to repay me my own Mo∣ney, when others, no way oblig'd to me as you have been, freely supply me with Theirs? And if those who have pro∣mised to lend me Moneys should hear, that instead of calling upon my Debtors, I should press upon others, upon whom I can pretend no claim, would they not, think you, be tempted to fall back from their word, as having too great reason to suspect, that the man who can so easi∣ly Forget the Debts owing to himself, would not much better Remember the Debts he owes to others. All these things consider'd, I hope you will be a∣shamed any longer to delay me the pay∣ment of my Money. But if Reason and Argument be of no force with you, as∣sure your selves I shall speedily find out some more powerful means than bare words, which will force you to be Ho∣nest, if they may be said to be so, who are not so till they are forced to it.
Ep. 118