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This very thing is the strongest proof of
the falsehood of the affidavit—that it is not the same person who
makes the claim about the same matter. And this is not strange for, I fancy,
when Leostratus here made his deposit in the inheritance suit against us, the
one who has now sworn the affidavit had not yet registered himself as a member
of the deme. We should therefore be most cruelly treated if you should believe
an affidavit made after the suit was begun.
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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