[30]
With regard to
the examination by the torture, then, bear these facts in mind: the time when
the challenge was tendered, his evasive purpose in doing this, and the first
occasions, in the course of which he showed that he did not wish this test to be
accorded him, and neither proposed it nor demanded it. Since, however, he was
convicted on all these points before the arbitrator, just as he is now, and
proved manifestly guilty of all the charges against him, he puts into the box a
false deposition,
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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