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This challenge,
then, we tendered to this Dionysodorus again and again, and we exposed the
challenge to public view over a period of many days. He, however, declared that
we must be absolute simpletons, if we supposed him to be senseless enough to go
before an arbitrator—who would most certainly condemn him to pay the
debt—when he might come into court bringing the money with him, and
then, if he could hoodwink you he would go back keeping possession of what was
another's, and if he could not, he would then pay the money. Thus he showed that
he had no confidence in the justice of his case, but that he wished to make
trial of you.
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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