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“And,” he said, “I will show you by a convincing
and manifest proof that I am telling the truth. I will send the woman away from
my house, since she is the daughter, not of Stephanus, but of Neaera. If I do
this, then let my statement that I was deceived be accepted as true; but, if I
fail to do it, then punish me as a vile fellow who is guilty of impiety toward
the gods.”
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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