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Now, men of Athens, let me show you the thing for which more than anything
else this fellow Stephanus deserves to be put to death. It is an awful thing to
bear false witness against anyone whomsoever, but it is a thing more awful by
far, and more deserving of indignation, to bear false witness against those of
your own blood; for a man of that stamp violates, not the written laws alone,
but also the ties of natural relationship. This, then, Stephanus shall be proved
to have done.
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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