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We then base our proof, not on
probabilities nor on circumstantial evidence, but on a witness from whom the
defendant may easily obtain satisfaction—a man who has prepared a
document containing an account of the defendant's life, and who makes himself
responsible for this evidence. So that when Androtion says that this is mere
abuse and accusation, reply that this is proof, but that abuse and accusation
describe his own performance; and when he says that we ought to have denounced
him to the Thesmothetae, reply that we intend to do so, and that we are now
quite properly citing this statute.
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