[5]
With reference to
matters of this nature you will gain clearer information in the course of my
address, but I think I must now inform you about the affidavit and the case at
issue. If, men of the jury, Leochares, basing his defence upon the affidavit
itself, were going to prove that he is the lawfully born son of Archiades, there
would be no need of many words, nor any need that I should trace our family line
back to its origin;
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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