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This fellow Stephanus prosecuted the
case, declaring on oath that Apollodorus had killed the woman with his own hand,
and he imprecated destruction upon himself and his race and his house, affirming
matters which had never taken place, which he had never seen or heard from any
human being. However, since he was proved to have committed perjury and to have
brought forward a false accusation, and was shown to have been hired by
Cephisophon and Apollophanes to procure for pay the banishment or the
disfranchisement of Apollodorus, he received but a few votes out of a total of
five hundred, and left the court a perjured man and one with the reputation of a
scoundrel.
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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