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Is the whole thing not absolutely
clear? Is it not confessedly a scheme to protect Aphobus? One certainly would so
declare, if he duly considered each one of the facts.Now, to prove that the defendant acknowledged that Aphobus
farmed the land up to the time of the commencement of my action against him;
that he refused the inquiry by torture as to his sister's continuing to live
with Aphobus; and that the farm was stripped after the court's decision of
everything save what was attached to the soil; take these depositions, and read
them.“
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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