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For regarding the house,
if he maintains that Polyeuctus was induced by me to order that mortgage-pillars
be set up for the thousand drachmae, yet surely, Spudias, I did not use my
influence to induce the witnesses to give false testimony in my
interest,—witnesses who were present when he betrothed to me his
daughter, who knew that I received less than the entire marriage portion, who
heard him when he acknowledged that he was in my debt and also when he had
introduced Leocrates as the one who should make payment, and who finally were
present when the will was made. For with all these persons it was no longer a
question of favoring me in these matters, but of risking a charge of giving
false testimony, if they deposed to what was not the truth. Let us, then, have
no more of that matter; but what will you say to this, Spudias?
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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