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Besides this, my mother was ready to call to her side my
sister and myself, and swear, with imprecations on our heads if she spoke
falsely—we were her only children, and it was for our sakes that she
gave herself up to a life of widowhood—that my father when he was
about to die had set this man free, and that Milyas was regarded by us as free thereafter. Let no one of you
assume that she would have been willing to make this oath with imprecations on
our heads if she had not known well that what she was to swear to was
true.Come now, to prove that I am speaking
the truth and that we were ready to do these things, call the witnesses
thereto.“
Witnesses
”
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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