To prove that I am speaking the truth, take the challenge and the deposition.“ Challenge ”“ Deposition ”
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Pray note
that in regard to this matter also I was ready to give over to him for torture
the slave who had written the deposition, who would know his own handwriting,
and who clearly remembered that Aphobus had made the deposition. I was ready to
do this, not for want of witnesses who were present, for there were some; but in
order that he might not accuse these men of giving false testimony, and that the
result of the torture might support them. Yet it is not fair to condemn the
witnesses on his account. They alone of men who have as yet stood trial before
you can show that the plaintiff himself has borne witness to their testimony as
to these matters.
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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