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How could one
prove more clearly than I have proved that we are the object of a malicious
charge; that the evidence brought forward against my opponent is true; and that
his condemnation was just? I have shown that he refused to examine by torture
the slave who wrote the testimony regarding the very things to which he had
testified; that his brother, Aesius, has attested the facts which he on his part
declares to be false;
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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