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And now please call the witnesses to
attest the truth of these statements also.“Witnesses[We,
Lysimachus of Alopece, Demeas of Sunium, Chares of Thoricus, Philemon of
Sphetta, Moschus of Paeania, know that at the date when the indictment was
presented to the Council charging Aristarchus, the son of Moschus, with the
murder of Nicodemus, Meidias, who is now being tried at the suit of
Demosthenes, for whom we appear, came before the Council and stated that
Aristarchus, and no one else, was the murderer of Nicodemus, and he advised
the Council to go to the house of Aristarchus and arrest him. This he said
to the Council, having dined on the previous day with Aristarchus in our
company. We also know that Meidias, when he came from the Council after
making this statement, again entered the house of Aristarchus and shook
hands with him and, invoking destruction on his own head, swore that he had
said nothing in his disparagement before the Council, and he asked
Aristarchus to reconcile Demosthenes to him.]”
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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