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Androcleides is present here; for I gave him notice to come and bring the
articles of agreement. I consent, men of the jury, that they be opened during
the defendant's speech, in either his first or his second, it makes no
difference to me. But I wish you to hear the agreement and the oaths which
Olympiodorus the defendant and I swore to one another. If he consents, let this
be done, and do you hear for yourselves the articles when he shall see fit; and
if he refuses to take this course, will it not be plain without further proof,
men of the jury, that he is the most shameless of humankind, and that you may
rightly refuse to accept as true anything whatever that he says?
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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