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Well, then,
that he consented and extended the time of payment has been established for you
by witnesses, and that I was serving as trierarch my colleague in the trierarchy
has testified, and also that the ship was equipped as flagship for the admiral
Alcimachus. Surely, then, I was not in default to him when he had extended the
time, especially since I paid the money in full. But the graspingness of his
disposition, when it is a question of more or less, is dreadful, men of the
jury. And they knew well that, if they should deliver up the woman for
examination, it would be proved that their charge was false, while, if they
should not deliver up the woman, whom the witnesses stated that Theophemus was
willing to deliver up, they would be convicted of false 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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