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§§ 43—46. Stephanus will urge, that he is not responsible for a deposition but for a challenge, and for the latter on two points only, (1) the question whether Phormion made this challenge or not, and (2) whether I refused it; and that the terms of the challenge mentioned in the deposition are Phormion's busi ness, not his. If so, the witness ought to have had the words erased when his deposition was drawn up. It is now too late to disclaim them, and he is bound in this trial by the terms of his own plea that he ‘gave true testimony, in testifying to that which is written in the record.’ ὡς μὲν κ.τ.λ. Imitated in Or. 59 § 119. προκλήσεως ὑπεύθυνος liable to be prosecuted for giving evidence of a pretended challenge that never took place. This is clear from what follows: δεῖ αὐτὸν δοῦναι λόγον εἴτε προὐκαλεῖτο Φ. ἤ μή.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part II. J. E. Sandys, Litt. D., and F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D. 1910. Cambridge University Press.
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