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More than all this, men of Athens, any man by examining
the wording of the deposition can see that it is nothing but a contrivance of
theirs to the end that rightly or wrongly it may appear that my father made this
will.But take the deposition itself, and
read, stopping wherever I bid you, that from its own wording I may prove my
point.“Deposition. . . depose that they were present before the arbitrator
Teisias, when Phormio challenged Apollodorus, if he declared that the
document was not a copy of the will of Pasio . . .”
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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