[17]
Again, in seeking to bring the truth of the matter to light, he would have
demanded of me the slave who wrote the depositions, in order that, if I refused
to give him up, I might seem to have no just ground for my statements. But, as
it is, so far from doing anything of the sort, he refused to accept the slave
for torture, when I, on his denial that he had given the evidence, offered him.
So plain is it that regarding this matter too both he and Aphobus as well were
alike unwilling to have recourse to torture.
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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