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Now I wish to
prove to you that he has given evidence contrary to another law also, that you
may know that Phormio, having no harbor of refuge from the grievous wrongs he
has committed, had made a pretence of the challenge, but actually has given
evidence for himself, screening himself behind the testimony of these men, by
which the jurymen were deceived, assuming that they were testifying to the
truth, and I was robbed of the property which my father left me and of
reparation for the wrongs which I have suffered. For the laws do not permit a
man to give evidence for himself either in criminal suits or in civil suits or
in audits. Phormio, however, has given evidence for himself, when these men say
that they have given this testimony on the strength of what they heard from him.
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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