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I wish now to
set forth to you, men of the jury, what I consider a stronger proof than all
those that have been mentioned, to show that the plaintiff did give this answer.
When, despite the admissions which he is proved to have made, he demanded of me
Milyas for torture, I was so
eager to show on the spot that this, too, was a subterfuge on his part, that
what do you think I did?
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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