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he might fittingly have
answered by urging that the arbitration be put off until the next meeting, in
order that he might bring the woman and deliver her up to me; but as it is,
Theophemus, they have deposed that it was you who desired to deliver up the
woman and that I was not willing to receive her. How is it that you, who were
the woman's master, when you were on the point of tendering me this challenge,
to which your witnesses have deposed, when you were forced to take refuge in
this woman's testimony to establish your case,
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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