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If he shall try any such
trick, do not tolerate it; expose him. What anyone of you does not know, let his
deem that his neighbor does not know either. Let him demand that Boeotus prove
clearly whatever statements he may make, and not shirk the truth by declaring
that you know things about which he will have no just argument to advance; since
I, on my part, men of the jury, although you all know the way in which my father
was compelled to adopt these men, am none the less suing them at law, and have
brought forward witnesses responsible for their testimony.1
1 Liable, that is, to prosecution for perjury, if their testimony be proved false.
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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