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Because, my good Sir, it is merely this that you are contriving, that you may
now have private debts equal in amount to the public debt which I have incurred
to the state. But that your statement is false, Phaenippus, and that you have
come before these gentlemen as a perjured man, I shall straightway prove beyond
all question.Please, clerk, take the deposition
of Aeantides and Theoteles to whom this fellow has declared that he owes four
thousand drachmae. His declaration is false, and he long ago paid the debt, not
willingly, but after a judgement had been secured against him. Read.“
Deposition
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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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