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Now no one of these reasons would have
led the men to testify in my favor. Not friendship; how could that be, seeing
that they are not engaged in the same pursuits, nor are they of like age, I will
not say with me, but with one another? Not enmity against my adversary, that is
plain; for one of them is his brother and pleads on his side; Phanus is a close
friend and a member of the same tribe; and Philip is neither friend nor enemy,
so that this motive, too, cannot be justly charged against them.
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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