[8]
I shall produce witnesses to prove, first, that in the
tax-company they agreed on my behalf to be taxed to the amount which I have
stated, and, next, that my father did not leave me a poor man, nor one
possessing an estate of merely seventy minae. On the contrary, my estate was so
considerable that these men were themselves unable to hide its value from the
state.Take,1 please, and
read this deposition.“
Deposition
”
1 These words were addressed to the clerk of the court.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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