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If, however, he declares that he offered to turn over
all matters at issue between us to Conon,1 son of
Timotheus, for arbitration, and that I refused to submit them, be sure that he
will be trying to mislead you. I, for my part, was ready to submit all matters
upon which a decision had not yet been rendered, either to Conon or to any other
impartial arbitrator whom Boeotus might choose; but matters regarding which the
arbitrator had given a decision in my favor, after Boeotus had thrice appeared
before him and contested the case,—a decision in which Boeotus
acquiesced, as witnesses have testified to you,—these matters, I
thought, could not justly be reopened.
1 The grandson of the famous Athenian general of this name.
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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