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That he did not
challenge my father to an oath at that time, but now maligns him after his
death, and brings forward his own intimates who recklessly bear false witness
against me, you can easily see from the circumstantial evidence and from the
deposition. And that I was ready on my father's behalf to take the oath which
the law prescribes when an heir is sued in court on a charge brought against one
who is dead,—
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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