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If, now, he maintains that it was a challenge and not a deposition, he is not
telling the truth. For all pieces of evidence which the parties to a suit bring
before the court when they tender challenges to one another, they bring in by
means of depositions. Otherwise you would not know whether what they severally
say is true or false, if they did not bring forward the witnesses also. But when
they do bring in witnesses, you rely upon these as being responsible, and so
from the statements and the testimony offered you cast your votes for what seems
to you to be a just verdict.
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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