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This is what he said
at that time, using the most vigorous language and bringing forward witnesses to
support his statements, and by this means deceiving the jurors; but now all this
is proved to be false; for he does not dare to deliver up the woman, whom the
witnesses have declared that he was ready to deliver up, but prefers that his
brother and his brother-in-law should have to stand trial on a charge of giving
false testimony, rather than that he should deliver up the woman in person, and
so be well rid of his troubles in a fair and legal way, and that they should not
try by arguments and entreaties to find a means of escape by deceiving you, if
they could;
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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