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However, to make the story brief, men of Athens, he
would not do one of the things to which he had agreed, and tried to withhold
from me the money which he held as capital in the bank; so then I was compelled
to enter suit against him at the earliest opportunity. Phormio on his part,
seeing that everything would be brought to light, and that he would be proved to
have acted toward me as the basest of humankind, contrived and concocted this
plot in furtherance of which the defendant Stephanus gave this false testimony
against me. In the first place, he entered a special plea in the suit in which
he was defendant, claiming that the suit was not admissible; and then he
produced false witnesses who stated that I had given him a release from my
claims, and who deposed to a forged lease and to a will which never existed.
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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