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that he did not give over the will, nor let the house,
although the laws so bade; and finally that he did not see fit to give an oath,
after the witnesses and I myself had sworn, whereby he could have secured
release to the amount of the sums regarding which he had demanded Milyas for torture. By heaven, I certainly
could think of no better way than this to establish these facts. Yet, plain as
it is that he falsely attacks the witnesses; that he suffers no damage from the
facts adduced; that he was justly condemned; he still tries to brazen it out.
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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