[33]
Why should I? No; the man who was first to strike me and
from whom I suffered the greatest indignity, he it is whom I am suing, whom I
abhor, and whom I am now prosecuting. My words, then, are all true and are
proved to be so, whereas the defendant, if he had not brought forward these
witnesses, had, I take it, not an argument to advance, but would have had
silently to undergo an immediate conviction. But it stands to reason, that these
men, who have been partners in his drinking bouts and have shared in many deeds
of this sort, have given false testimony. If matters are to come to this pass,
if once certain people shall prove shameless enough to give manifestly false
testimony, and there shall be no advantage in the truth, it will be a terrible
state of things.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.