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Ah, but he will say that
he has heard from his father the facts to which he has sworn. But the law does
not admit hearsay evidence, save in the case of deceased persons; whereas this
fellow has dared to swear to acts done by his father, while that father is still
alive. Then again, why did Leostratus here inscribe on the affidavit the name,
not of himself, but of the defendant? For the older facts should have been sworn
to by the older man. It was, he might say, because I have had this youth adopted
as son to Archiades.
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