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Other men, when
they see that their cause is failing before a judge, fly to an arbitrator. This man has
dared to come from an arbiter to a judge, who when he admitted an arbitrator about this
money, and about the credit due to his account-books, gave a plain indication that no
money was owing to him. Already two-thirds of the cause are over. He admits that he has
not set down the sum as due, and he does not venture to say that he has entered it as
paid, since he does not produce his books. The only alternative remaining, is for him to
assert that he had received a promise of it; for otherwise I do not see how he can
possibly demand a definite sum of money.
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