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I wish now, men
of the jury, to set forth before you the treatment with which I have met at
their hands. For when I had lost to them the suit in which the witnesses gave
the false testimony for which I am suing them, and the time for paying the
judgement was about to expire, I came up to Theophemus and begged him to oblige
me by waiting a little while, telling him what was true, that although I had got
together the money which I was going to pay him, a trierarchy had fallen to my
lot,
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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