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Well then, you who had
him adopted and concocted the whole affair ought to have rendered an account of
it, and made yourself responsible for what you have done. You ought absolutely
to have done so. But you evaded this, and wrote over the affidavit the name of
your son here, who knew nothing of the matter. You see, then, men of the jury,
that the statements in the affidavit are false, and they are admitted by these
men themselves to be so. Why, it would even be right for you to refuse to listen
to this man Leostratus, when he presently undertakes to make statements to which
he did not venture to swear in the affidavit.
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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