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each one of them omitting to state what had been
written in the will by Phormio,—no danger in deposing that one's
father had left him a document with the word “will” written
on it, or anything of that sort. But to testify to the existence of a will in
which were involved the theft of such vast sums, the corruption of a lady, the
marriage of a mistress with her slave, matters which entailed such shame and
disgrace—nobody was ready to do this save these men who got up the
challenge; and from them it is right to exact the penalty for the whole of this
villainous fraud.
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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