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This great and
formidable contest, then, he got up against me, not as a simple-minded fellow,
but as a conspirator and a villain. But after this, instead of the name,
Boeotus, which my father had given him, as has been proved to you by witnesses,
after my father's death he had his name inscribed on the list of the demesmen as
Mantitheus, and being further addressed by the name of the same father and the
same deme as I myself, he not only forced a retrial of the case in which I am
now suing him,1 but when you had elected me taxiarch, he
came in person to the court to pass the probationary test2; and when judgement had been given
against him in an ejectment suit, he declared that it was not against him but
against me that the judgement had been given.
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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