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If what I am
saying is not true, why did I not proceed against the witnesses who gave this
evidence instead of keeping absolute silence? Or why did you, Olympiodorus,
never sue me for the rent of the house which you alleged was your own and had
been rented by you to me; or for the money which you told the jurymen you had
lent me? Why, I say, did you do neither of these things? How, then, could any
man be more clearly convicted than you have been of lying, of making
contradictory statements, and of preferring charges that lack all foundation?
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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