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Be that as it may, when they had
had their fill and were tired of acting thus, they put in a challenge with a
view to gaining time and preventing the boxes from being sealed, offering to
deliver up certain slaves, whose names they wrote down, to be examined as to the
assault. And I fancy that their defence will hinge chiefly upon this point. I
think, however, that you should all note one thing—that if these men
tendered the challenge in order that the inquiry by the torture should take
place, and had confidence in this method of proof, they would not have tendered
it when the award was now just being announced, when night had fallen and no
further pretext was left them; no,
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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