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How
could he? What was it, then, that forced him to make this statement? I fancy
that Evergus, at the time he made the mistakes1 for which he has paid the penalty, being on
friendly terms with me and well known, took the slave from my house and
stationed him at his own works to keep guard. If, then, he had written the
truth, it would have been ridiculous. For, if Evergus stationed the slave there,
wherein do I wrong you? It was to avoid this absurdity that he was compelled to
write as he did, that his charge might be directed against me.Read what follows.“ComplaintAnd then having
persuaded my slaves to sit in the foundry2 to my prejudice.”
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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