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Such are the
legal tests which he has refused, and so numerous the proofs by which he is
shown to be acting with malice and insincerity; yet he demands that you put
credence in his own witnesses, and he slanders mine, and declares that their
testimony is false.I wish now to speak of the
matter on the basis of probabilities. I am certain that you would all agree that
those who give false testimony are led to do so by bribes through stress of
poverty, or by friendship, or else by enmity toward the opposite party in the
suit.
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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