[4]
This matter you should consider, not in the light of the proofs which I have
advanced, but from the conduct of Onetor himself. No man on earth compelled him;
he took down the pillars himself; and thus by his own act he makes clear that he
is a liar. To prove that these statements of mine are true, that he even now
declares that the land is mortgaged for a talent, but that he laid claim to two
thousand drachmae more on the house, and took the pillars down after the suit
was decided, I shall bring forward witnesses who know the facts.Now take the deposition.“
Deposition
”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.