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Well,
my father died at Athens, the arbitration took place in the Painted Stoa,1 and these men have
deposed that Amphias produced the document before the arbitrator. Then, if it
was genuine, the document ought to have been put into the box,2 and the one producing it should have so testified, in
order that the jurymen might have reached a decision in accordance with the
truth and after an inspection of the seals; and I, on my part, if anyone was
wronging me, might have proceeded against him.
1 The Painted Stoa was the largest and finest of the porticoes surrounding the agora. It got its name from the famous paintings with which its walls were adorned.
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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