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I have many witnesses to these
facts, and circumstantial proofs no fewer in number than the witnesses. In the
first place, if he did not in very truth give this testimony, he would not be
denying it now, but would have done so at once in the courtroom, when the
deposition was read, for it would have answered his purpose better then than
now. In the second place Aesius would not have kept quiet, but would have sued
me for damages, if without cause I had made him liable to a charge of bearing
false witness against his brother, a charge on which men run the risk both of
damages in money and the loss of citizenship.
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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