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Shall we, then, say, or shall we not,
that he has possession of these eighty minae? And was it on the evidence of
these witnesses here or of those that he was convicted? I think it was on the
evidence of truth. He has enjoyed the interest on this sum for ten years, and
even though judgement has been given against him, cannot bring himself to pay it
back. Despite this, he declares that he has been outrageously treated and that
he lost the suit by reason of these witnesses. Yet not one of them testified
that he had received the marriage-portion.
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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