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I am going to call the witnesses now
present in court to prove that my version of the facts is correct; that on the
day before he told that tale to the Council, he had entered Aristarchus's house
and had a conversation with him; that on the next day-and this, men of
Athens, this for vileness is
impossible to beat—he went into his house and sat as close to him as
this, and put his hand in his, in the presence of many witnesses, after that
speech in the Council in which he had called Aristarchus a murderer and said the
most terrible things of him; that he invoked utter destruction on himself if he
had said a word in his disparagement; that he never thought twice about his
perjury, though there were people present who knew the truth, and he actually
begged him to use his influence to bring about a reconciliation with me.
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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