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My opponent was aware of all this, and knew
better than anybody else that their testimony was true, but nonetheless he
brings forward a malicious charge against them, and not only declares that he
did not make the statement which I have proved in the most conclusive manner
that he did make, but even asserts that the man, Milyas, is in fact a slave. I wish in a very few words to prove
that in this, too, he is lying. I was ready, men of the jury, regarding this
point also to give over to him to be tested by torture my female slaves, who
remember that my father on his death-bed set this man free.
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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