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Furthermore,
even from the tablet upon which the deposition is written one can tell that he
has given false evidence. For it is whitened, and was prepared at home.1 Yet it is only those who testify to facts who should
offer depositions prepared at home; those who testify to challenges, who stand
forward on the spur of the moment, should present their depositions written in
wax, in order that, if one wants to add or to erase anything, it may be easier
to do so.
1 As the deposition was written, （with a dark pigment） on a whitened tablet, it had obviously been prepared in advance. An off-hand answer to a challenge would have been written on a waxed tablet.
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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