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When these terms
had been accepted—for why should I make my story a long
one?—he went to meet her before the arbitrator, and Plangon, contrary
to all that she had agreed to do, accepted the challenge, and swore in the
Delphinium1 an
oath which was the very opposite of her former one, as most of you know well;
for the transaction became a notorious one. Thus, my father was compelled on
account of his own challenge to abide by the arbitrator's award, but he was
indignant at what had been done, and took the matter heavily to heart, and did
not even so consent to admit these men into his house; but he was compelled to
introduce them to the clansmen. The defendant he enrolled as Boeotus, and the
other as Pamphilus.
1 The temple of Apollo Delphinius, situated somewhere near the ancient entrance to the Acropolis.
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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