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and when you had no other witness to my having assaulted you and having
delivered the first blow—how is it, I ask, that you did not bring the
woman with you to the arbitrator and deliver her up, having her then present in
person, and being yourself her master? Nay, you state that you tendered the
challenge; but no one saw the woman by means of whom you deceived the jurors,
through producing false witnesses to represent that you wished to give her up.
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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