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and the jury thought that the testimony was
true, and that I was seeking to evade the evidence which the woman might have
given in regard to the assault and the question as to which one of us delivered
the first blow （for this is what constitutes assault）. Is it
not, then, a necessary inference that these witnesses have given false
testimony, men who even up to this day dare not deliver up the woman in person,
as according to their statement Theophemus offered to do, and as they testified
for him? And they dare not establish by actual fact the truth of their testimony
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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