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And, by heaven, you ought to have satisfied
all men that there was a watercourse, that you might have shown, not by your
mere statement, as is the case now, but on a basis of fact, that my father was
guilty of wrongdoing. Yet no one of these men ever thought of doing any such
thing. For, had you done this, you would not have got an award for default
against me, as you now have, nor would you have gained anything by your
malicious charges;
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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