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To
prove that I am stating the truth in this—that the ballots were not
given out when all were present and that the ballots outnumbered those who
voted—I will bring before you witnesses. It happens that I have at
hand no friend of my own or any other Athenian to be my witness regarding these
facts since the hour was so late and I had not asked anyone to be present, but I
am forced to call as witnesses the very men who have wronged me. I have thereore
put in writing for them statements which they will not be able to
deny.Read.“
Deposition
”
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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