[3]
My father （for the whole truth shall be told you,
men of the jury） feared to come into court lest someone, on the ground
of having elsewhere received some injury from him in his public life, should
confront him here; and at the same time he was deceived by this man's mother.
For she had sworn that if he should tender her an oath in this matter, she would
refuse it, and that, when this had been done, all relations between them would
be at an end; and she had also had money deposited in the hands of a third party
on her behalf1;—on these conditions, then, my father tendered her the
oath.
1 This money was evidently to be paid to her for fulfilling her promise to refuse the oath.
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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