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Now look you, as to the ivory and iron, I
have this to say: all the slaves of the household know that the plaintiff used
to sell these articles. I am ready now, as I was then, to give over to him any
one of these slaves whom he may choose to be examined by torture. If then, he
alleges that I refuse to surrender the man who has knowledge of the facts, and
offer him others who have no such knowledge, he will but show that he ought all
the more to have accepted my offer. For if those whom I offered to him as having
knowledge of the facts, declared that he had none of these articles in his
possession, he would of course have been acquitted of the charge.
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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