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Well and good. If they had not
deposed to the will as well as to the challenge, there would have been some
reason in my refusing to open the document; but since they deposed to both, and
the jurymen were going to hear the will in any case, what advantage was there
for me in refusing? None, assuredly. Quite the contrary, men of Athens; even if
these men had tendered no challenge, but had merely talked of the matter, and
someone had delivered a document to them as a will,
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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