If a wrongdoer prefers to refuse the summons rather than testify to the truth, the whole business will be made clear to you... But if he does indeed answer the summons, but resorts to the most shameless course, denial of the truth under oath, as a demonstration that he well knows how to help cover up such conduct, in the first place he will damage himself, and in the second place he will gain nothing by it. Aeschines. Against Timarchus. Speech 1. Section 46 - 47.
Note: In the quote I have used the descriptor "wrongdoer" in place of the name of Misgolas, an allegedly corrupt older man who cavorted with a young, licentious Timarchus.
Image: Bacchanale by Jules Dalou. The plaster was exhibited at the Salon of 1891. Located at the center of the fountain of the Greenhouses Garden of Auteuil in Paris, Tercé stone, circa 1895 - 1898. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor 9jules9.
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