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He read me a long
challenge, demanding that a slave who, he claimed, was acquainted with the
facts, should be put to the torture; and that, if the facts as alleged by him
were true, I should have to pay him the damages charged without adjustment by
the jury; but if they were false, Mnesicles, the torturer, should determine the
value of the slave. When he had received sureties to this agreement from me and
I had sealed the challenge （not that I thought it fair;
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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