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But of the many witnesses who testified against you, what
one have you sued for false testimony? Tell us. But you cannot. Yet you plainly
convict yourself, and prove that you lie when you declare that you have been
outrageously treated, and that you lost the suit unjustly, because this man was
not given up to you—you who made no charge of giving false testimony
against the witnesses who testified that you received and had in your possession
the property, concerning which you demanded Milyas for torture to prove that it was never left us. If you
had really been wronged, it would have been more fitting to proceed against
them. But you were not wronged, and are bringing a baseless suit out of malice.
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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