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After this the
arbitration was done away with, the articles of agreement having disappeared and
the authority of the arbitrators being questioned. They did endeavor to draw up
new articles about these matters, but could come to no agreement, as the
plaintiff insisted on having Aristocles, and Parmeno the three to whom in the
first instance the arbitration had been referred. Nevertheless, although no new
articles had been drawn, and those originally drawn had been made away with, the
man who had made away with them came to such a pitch of shamelessness that he
declared he would in his own single person pronounce the award. Parmeno called
witnesses to be present, and forbade Aristocles to pronounce an award against
him, without his co-arbitrators, in defiance of the articles of
agreement.Hear the deposition of those in
whose presence he thus forbade him.“
Deposition
”
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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