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Why in the
world, then, Stephanus, did you people depose to the will under the form of a
challenge, instead of leaving the matter to them? If they on their part shall
declare that they do not know the contents of the will, how is it possible for
you to know them, you who have never in any way been connected with the matter?
Why, pray, is it that one group of witnesses testified to these facts, and
another group to those? It is as I have already told you: they divided the
fraud. The one so testifying saw no danger in deposing that he served as
guardian under the will, or that he lived as ward under the will,
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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