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and they all answered severally
that no witness was present, but that Aphobus got it from them by instalments,
in such sums as he needed from time to time. And yet can any one of you believe
this, that, when the dowry was a talent, Onetor and Timocrates put so large a
sum into the hands of Aphobus without witnesses? Why, in paying him money, I
will not say in this manner, but even in the presence of many witnesses, one
would have taken every possible precaution1 in order, if a dispute should arise, to be able
readily to recover in your court what was due.
1 More literally, “one would have been rash to have trusted him.”
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