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Stop reading.
All these charges which he has now lodged against me he previously made against
Evergus, and won his suit. Now evidence has been brought before you in the
opening of my speech that I was not in the country when these men quarrelled
with one another; but the fact is clear from the complaint itself. For he
nowhere stated that I have done any of these things, but, suggesting that I laid
a plot against him and against his property, he declares that I ordered my slave
to commit these acts; and in this he lies. For how could I have given this
order, seeing that at the time I set sail I could by no possibility have had
knowledge of what was going to happen here?
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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