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I think, then, men of
Athens, that nothing could be more to the purpose than to bring forward
witnesses to these facts. For if one is continually making baseless charges,
what can one expect him to do now? In truth, men of Athens, I think that
whatever serves as an index of Phormio's character, and of his uprightness and
his generosity, I may rightly bring before you as something quite to the
purpose. For one who is dishonest in all matters might perhaps have wronged the
plaintiff among others; but a man who has never wronged anybody in anything,
but, on the contrary, has voluntarily done good to many, how could he reasonably
be thought to have wronged Apollodorus alone of all men?When you have heard these depositions, you will know the
character of either.“
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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