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How, then,
could it be made more plain that the fellow is unwilling to act justly toward me
in any way, that he thinks to rob me of what I ought to receive by advancing
excuses and preferring charges, and that he determined that you should not hear
the agreement which he asserts I have broken? But I challenged him then before
the witnesses who were present, and I challenge him again now before you
jurymen, and I demand that he consent, and I myself do consent, to have the
articles of agreement opened here in the court-room, to let you hear them, and
to have them sealed up again in your presence.
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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