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If, when I have given
oath that you acknowledged the man to be free, and that you so testified against
Demo, you will swear to the contrary with imprecations upon your daughter, I
release to you the entire sum, for which you shall be shown by the examination
of the slave to have at the first demanded Milyas; and the damages which you were condemned to pay shall
be lessened by thus much—that is, by the amount in regard to which you
demanded Milyas, to the end that you
may be found to have been put to no disadvantage by the 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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