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Yet Onetor, after refusing a test
so fair, and rejecting proofs so clear and so convincing, will produce Aphobus
and Timocrates as witnesses, the one that he has paid the dowry, and the other
that he has received it, and will demand that you believe him, when he pretends
that his transactions with them were without witnesses. For such simpletons does
he take you.
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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