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whereas, if he attacked an answer given, he thought
that as he had made an admission before, so now it would be in his power to make
a denial.1 That is the
reason why he attacks the testimony of this witness, the truth of whose
testimony I mean to prove conclusively to you all, not on the basis of
probabilities, or of arguments made up to fit the occasion, but by reasoning
which, I am sure, will approve itself to you all as just and fair. Listen, and
judge.
1 That is, in attacking the testimony of the deponent he would deny his own previous admissions.
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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