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That the statements in the deposition are true I hold
that neither Stephanus himself nor anyone else in his behalf will be able to
prove. I hear, however, that he is prepared to make some such statement as this,
that he is responsible for a challenge, not for a deposition, and that he should
be held to account, not for everything written in it, but for two things
only—whether Phormio tendered me this challenge or not, and whether I
refused it; these matters and no more, he will say, were included in his
deposition; as for the rest, Phormio covered them in his challenge, but whether
they were true or not it was not the business of the witness to inquire.
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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