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When
I bade him prove this to the arbitrator, he did not do so, nor did he show that
his fellow-guardians had paid me （for if he had, the arbitrator would
not have given judgement against him）; but he put in a piece of
evidence1 of a sort regarding which he will try to find something to
say.If even now he still tries to assert that
I am in possession of property, ask him who handed it over to me, and demand
that he produce witnesses to prove each statement.
1 The speaker would have the jury think that the bit of evidence in question is unworthy of further notice.
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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