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You see, men of
the jury, how intimate Lycon was with Callippus. He neither called him in for
consultation about his affairs, nor did he ever put up at the home of Callippus
as a guest; and this very fact is the one thing to which the plaintiff's friends
have not ventured to depose, that, namely, he ever did put up at his house; for
they knew well that, if they told any such lie as this, they would at once be
convicted by the slaves when these were put to the torture.
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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