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What better opportunity could
he have had of convicting us of falsehood than by putting my slave to torture?
But Aphobus knew better than anyone else that the slave had borne true
testimony, and therefore he declined the test. And in truth it is not one or two
only who know these facts; the challenge was not made in secret, but in the
midst of the agora where many were present.Call,
please, the witnesses to these facts.“
Witnesses
”
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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