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And these are their brilliant and
vigorous pleas, “What! Are we not to give testimony for one another?
Isn't that the way of comrades and friends? What is there that you really fear
in the charges he will bring against you? Do some people say they saw him being
beaten? We will testify that he wasn't even touched by you. That his cloak was
stripped off? We will testify that they had done this first to you. That his lip
has been sewn up? We will say that your head or something else has been
broken.”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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