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This, men of the jury, is
what the plaintiff said to my father, and what my father repeated to Archebiades
and Cephisiades at the plaintiff's request and as a favor to him; and from this,
little by little, this suit has been got up. I was ready to swear by the most
solemn of oaths, that I verily heard these statements from my father.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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