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“Deposition[I, Pammenes, son of Pammenes, of Erchia,
have a goldsmith's shop in the Agora, where I reside and carry on my
business. When Demosthenes, for whom I am a witness, commissioned me to
fashion a golden crown,1 and to make a gold-embroidered robe, that he
might wear them at the procession in honor of Dionysus; and when I had
completed them and had them ready by me, Meidias, who is being prosecuted by
Demosthenes, broke into my premises by night, having also others with him,
and tried to destroy the crown and the robe, and a part of them he injured,
but was not able to destroy them completely, because I appeared and
prevented him.]”
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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