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My father gave his consent, and during his lifetime
Lysitheides despite his intimacy with these men did not venture to commit any
wrong against us. And yet some of the plaintiff's friends are so lacking in
shame, that they had the audacity to depose that Callippus challenged my father
to take an oath, and that my father refused to swear before Lysitheides; and
they imagine that they can convince you that in that case Lysitheides, a friend
of Callippus and the one acting as arbitrator in the case, would have refrained
from making an immediate award against my father, especially since my father
thus refused to make himself the judge of his own case.1
1 By refusing, that is, to take the oath on the basis of which the award would have been made.
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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