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And wishing to make
this clear to you all, I deemed it right to convict him in the presence of
witnesses, in case he should deny that matters are as I have stated; and I
offered to him for torture a slave who knew well all the facts—one
whom I had taken from among those of Aphobus, since he had not paid the damages
within the time fixed by law. When I made this demand, Onetor declined to put
the slave to torture as to the question of his sister's living with Aphobus;
and, as to Aphobus's tilling the land, the fact was too plain to be denied, so
he confessed it.
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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