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But Onetor, when I made this challenge to him, and
all those present declared that my proposal was just, refused to have recourse
to this certain test, but, as though there were other and surer proofs regarding
such matters than torture and testimony, he produced no witnesses to prove that
he had paid the dowry, nor would he give up for torture the female slaves who
knew the fact, to prove that his sister was not living with Aphobus; and,
because I made this demand of him, he in an outrageous and insulting manner
refused to let me talk to him. Could there be a man more impossible to deal with
than he, or more ready to pretend ignorance of what is right? Take the challenge
itself and read it.“
Challenge
”
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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