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For
in claims of this sort everyone makes demand before he brings suit. Well, there
isn't a person living who will testify that he was present either last year or
the year before, when this man either instituted proceedings against me or made
any mention to me whatever of the claims for which he is now suing me.To prove that he was in town last year when the courts
were open, please 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.
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