[22]
The presumption is, then, that the defendant made the
settlement in the presence of the same witnesses before whom he had admitted the
indebtedness and promised to pay the interest, if he really did pay the dowry to
Aphobus. For, if he had acted in this way, he would have cleared himself of the
whole matter; but by paying him when they were alone, he would have left those
in whose presence he had made the agreement as witnesses that he was still a
debtor.
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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