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Now, note this, men of the jury, note this, I beg of
you. There was in the papers mention of the two minae, the price of the
slave—and it was not only Polyeuctus on his death-bed who had made
this claim—and there was mention of the eighteen hundred drachmae.
When he read this, if what was written did not concern him at all and was
untrue, why pray did he not at once protest about it? Why did he join in sealing
again papers which were false and of no worth? This of course no one in the
world would do, if he did not concur in all that was written.
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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