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Then he seeks now to
deceive and beguile you by claiming that he set up the pillars before judgement
was given against Aphobus. Aye, Onetor; but not before it was given by you, if
what you now say is true. For it is clear that you acted as you did because you
were convinced of his guilt. Again, this language of yours is absurd, as though
you, men of the jury, did not know that all those who commit frauds of this sort
determine what they are going to say, and that no one ever lost a suit through
keeping quiet, or admitting that he was in the wrong; but it is, I think, when
he has been convicted of making a false statement, that men know what manner of
man he is.
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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