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and I will further
produce what you will all acknowledge when you have heard it, to be, not a
weaker, but a stronger proof that my statement is true. For Theocrines here,
when prosecuting for illegal action this abominable person, as he will presently
call him, and the one who is the cause of his present troubles, openly
discharged him from the indictment, in which he had fixed the penalty at ten
talents. How? By doing nothing startling, but the very thing that others of his
stamp have done. When the indictment was called, someone filed an affidavit for
postponement, declaring that Demosthenes was ill—Demosthenes, who was
going about and abusing Aeschines. This enemy of his, then, this fellow has let
off, and he neither at the time filed a counter-affidavit, nor did he
subsequently call the case for trial. Are not these men manifestly hoodwinking
you, when you entertain the idea that they are personal foes?Read the depositions.“
Depositions
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