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But, as it was, instead of securing many witnesses to these acts you did
everything you could that none should know, as though you were committing some
crime! Again, had you been making payment to me, your creditor, in person, there
would have been no need of witnesses, for you would have taken back the
agreement and so got rid of the obligation; whereas in making payment, not to
me, but to another on my behalf, and not at Athens but in Bosporus, when your agreement was deposited at Athens and with me, and when the man to
whom you paid the money was mortal and about to undertake a voyage over such a
stretch of sea, you called no one as a witness, whether slave or freeman.
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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