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But nothing of the sort is the truth. It would have
been proved past all question that he had sold the goods, and appropriated the
profits. Therefore, he passed over those who were admittedly slaves, and
demanded that a freeman be examined by torture, whom it would have been a crime
for me to surrender; for it was not his purpose that he should sift out the
matter, but that he might make a specious argument out of the fact that his
demand was refused.Regarding, therefore, all
these facts, first the marriage-portion, then his connivance with fraud, then
all the rest, there shall be read to you the laws and the depositions, that you
may have full knowledge.“
Laws
”“
Depositions
”
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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