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I imagine that, having
no just argument to advance on any point, he will have recourse to this defence
also—that it is absurd for me, after having been worsted in the case
of the special plea, to sue those who gave evidence of a will; and he will
maintain that the jurymen in that trial were led to vote in favor of Phormio, by
the evidence of those who testified to the release rather than by that of those
who testified to the will. But, men of Athens, I think you all know that it is
your habit to examine the facts no less closely than the pleas which men make
regarding them; and these men, by giving false testimony against me regarding
the facts themselves, weakened my arguments on the special plea.
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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