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Besides all the rest （for this
has occurred to me just now）, they have come to such a pitch of
audacity as to have put in a deposition of Crito, alleging that he has purchased
from me my one-third share in the house. Now that this is false you will easily
perceive; for in the first place Crito does not live so economically as to be
able to purchase a house from someone else, but so extravagantly and
licentiously that he spends the property of others as well as his own. Again, he
is not now this man's witness, but rather my adversary. For who among you is
ignorant that witnesses are those who have no interest in the matter at issue in
the suit; while adversaries are those who are involved in the matters in regard
to which one goes to law with them? The latter is the case with Crito.
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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