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It remains, I
think, to show you, men of Athens, that not only will you be fulfilling your
oaths, if you give the verdict for which I ask, but also that the defendant has
given judgement against himself, that he should rightly bear the name of
Boeotus, and not Mantitheus. For when I had entered this suit against Boeotus,
son of Mantias, of Thoricus, at the first he accepted service of the suit, and
put in an oath for delay, as being Boeotus; but finally, when there was no
longer room for evasion, he allowed the arbitrators to give judgement against
him by default, and then, in Heaven's name, see what he did—
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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