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For this reason they were driven through stress of necessity
to make up this false story. By such tricks and pieces of villainy, while hoping
themselves to pass for simple folk, they think they will easily deceive you;
whereas in the slightest matter affecting their interest they acted, not with
simplicity, but with every possible precaution.Take now the depositions of the persons in whose presence they gave their
answers, and read them to the jury.“
Depositions
”
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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